Artist Bio
Debórah Anne Kaufman, a native of the Southern California Coastline, has demonstrated her exuberant, passionate creativity through writing, song, music, dance, and fine art, from the age of five. At the age of ten, she began her formal education in technical drawing, painting, and sculpture, especially focused on life drawing under the mentorship of Founder/Director, Ed Buttwinck of the Brentwood Art Center.
Inspired by the Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Debórah emphasizes the beauty, grace, and strength she sees in the human figure through realism. Honing her technical skills, she produces large vibrant, colorful pieces in acrylic paint and chalk pastel of the human figure and its interaction with nature.
Debórah received her BFA in Live Action and Computer Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Her thesis, an educational film on child abuse, Into Your Heart, was premiered by the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, archived in the National Library Clearinghouse of Information in Washington D.C., and distributed by AIMS Media.
Working in the entertainment industry, her work developed from realism to super-realism and surrealism through works including a children’s story, Roots ’N’ Wings by British musician and music video director Lol Creme, and Parasite Eve, a role-playing video game developed by Square, a sequel to the novel written by Hideaki Sena.
Debórah received a Master's in Clinical Psychology, with a specialization in Trauma and Co-Occurring Disorders, and an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy at Phillips Graduate Institute in 1991. She utilized realism, super-realism, and surrealism to explore and delve into the depths of the subconscious through Art Therapy.
Debórah explores the connection between people, animals, and the natural world, exploring our integration and virtues with nature versus our separation, sins, disconnection, and extinction.