Deborah_Oropallo

Deborah Oropallo Deborah Oropallo was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. According to the San Jose Museum of Art, Oropallo “received her B.F.A. from Alfred University in New York State, and her M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.” She now reside in Berkeley, California where she spends her days painting mundane object which slowly creating a striking image of poetic importance. She uses daily object such as ropes, tires, and doormats and transformed them into paintings where viewers can interpret a different meaning. In her most recent paintings, Oropallo’s uses the technique of digital photography and Iris prints. According to the LGI Digital & Fine Art Printing, “Iris Printing offer richness, detail and depth that clearly set them apart from traditional offset lithography.” Her paintings may seem far from sensuous paintings of other artist, yet the vibrant colors and suggestive overlays provide these objects visually dominant in a special way. When she discovered this new way of art, she continue to discover the hidden beauty that lay in the objects that surround us in our daily life. She uses objects that are from our industrial surroundings to provide us with messages that she sees within our economy. She used object art, containers, work, piece, painting, viewers, artist, orange, container, because, words, paintings, oropallo, different, canvas, whole, welcome, sense, perspective, objects, industrial, implied, using, shapes, oropallo’s, object, message, lines, life, label, hazardous, front, create, colors, attention, within