Debra Baxter: Love Tears

"There's inevitable pain in every form of love." Debra Baxter's new body of work, Love Tears, embodies the entanglement of love, mortality and the natural world. Taking cues from Victorian mourning jewelry, Baxter uses a vocabulary of crystals, minerals, glass and metal to examine how grief has manifested within material culture throughout history.

Curatorial Statement

Jordan Eddy

In Love Tears, Baxter crafts her own sculptural language of grief and mourning. The meaning rests not just in the materials, which are alternately fragile and enduring, but in her methods for combining them. Here, exquisite pain fuses with transcendent love.

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About the Artist

Debra Baxter is a sculptor and jewelry designer who combines carved alabaster with crystals, minerals, metals, and found objects. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Bard College in 2008 and her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1996. She also studied at Academia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. Baxter's work is rooted craft, honoring the materials that express her ideas. Of form & concept, Debra says "with the marriage of craft, design & fine art, it makes alot of sense to show there." Her contemporary jewelry designs are all about the minerals and crystals, showcasing their raw beauty.

Press

"Comprised of anatomical and figurative sculptures, the multifaceted series blends alabaster, quartz, and wood with delicate glass or metal to create forms that contrast the fragility of the body and natural world with the rugged topographies of crystals and rock."

-Grace Ebert, Colossal

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Love Tears: Exhibition Guide