Deborah Zlotsky

Deborah Zlotsky works experimentally, beginning with a mark of color in her abstract painting and allows the gradually forming shapes and images to guide her composition. As she explains: “I work responsively, constantly altering relationships in a process of accumulating, assembling, and revising.” Though her process is intuitive, Zlotsky approaches her work analytically and grounded in art history. “Although abstract, the work comes out of a personal awareness of the complexity, subtleties and coincidences of being in the world,” she says.

Zlotsky received a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship and NYFA Artist Fellowships in Painting in 2012 and 2018. She has also been awarded recent residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Bemis Center.

Zlotsky teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in the Hudson Valley.