Fall Small Works Collection
My Small Works Collection seems to have struck a chord! My Small Works Collection seems to have struck a chord! These are my best selling pieces, probably because they are priced to sell! The inspiration for this collection was making my environmental art affordable to folks who want to live with it. The collection includes […]
2024 New Gallery Representation at IMPERFECTA, in Oregon
Imperfecta gallery welcomes Deborah Kruger as a gallery artist I have wonderful news to share. Beginning in August 2024, I will be represented by imperfecta, an art and design gallery in Oregon City, just south of Portland. Finding a good fit for a gallery is elusive at best. In this case, Daria Loi, the gallerist, […]
2024 TURBULENCE: Birds, Beauty, Language & Loss
Portrait of the Artist with Curator Stacy Bloom-Rexode Solo Show at Block Gallery in Raleigh, NC I am excited to announce my solo exhibition at Block Gallery in Raleigh, NC. The curator, Stacy Bloom-Rexode, contacted me through LinkedIn (good reminder to keep your LI profiles current!). Over the nine months preceding the show, the curator […]
2024 Summer News Cycle
News from Deborah Kruger’s studio that spans Italy, Iceland, Turkmenistan, Oregon, and North Carolina Right now, I have so much great news to share that it made more sense to send out a newsletter with blurbs about each one and over the course of the fall, I will write individual blogs as they all deserve […]
2023 Kruger Wins Keller Prize
Grand Prize Winner! On the last day of 2023, I saw an Instagram post in my feed that said that I had won the Grand Prize for the Keller Prize. I couldn’t believe my eyes! I even had to ask a friend to check her Instagram and look up @thekellerprize and tell me if I […]
Spring Small Works Collection
Spring Small Works Collection Affordable Art for your home or office My Small Works Collection seems to have struck a chord! When I posted it for the first time in December, four pieces sold right away! The genesis of this collection was making my environmental art affordable to folks who want to live with it. The […]
2024 LOGOS Exhibition in Perugia, Italy
2024 LOGOS Exhibition in Perugia, Italy 10 Fiber Artists using Text On my way back from exhibiting in Venice last April, my assistant Sandra and I stopped in Milan to meet Curator Barbara Pavan and an Italian fiber artist Michela Cavagna. It was one of those memorable meetings where conversation and ideas spilled forth unabated […]
2024 Icelandic Textile Center Residency
September 2024 – One month residency Like most artists, I spend an inordinate amount of time applying for grants, shows and residencies. I get more rejections than acceptances and have developed a thick skin, so usually the rejections just roll off my back. I recently learned about the Icelandic Textile Residency (ITC) and sent them […]
Small Works Collection by Deborah Kruger
Affordable Art for your home or office Although I frequently post blogs about my larger abstract pieces, I also make lots of smaller artwork that is quite affordable. Check out my new Small Works Collection page on my website. This page is dedicated to showing you my new intimately-scaled collection of pieces that would look […]
2023 Text & Textiles: Two-person show at the Shelley Heffler Gallery
On view through December 25, 2023 I met Shelley Heffler in 2016 when she won a free artist residency at 360 Xochi Quetzal, an artist and writers residency in Mexico that I directed (now under the leadership of Bethany Ann Putnam). We felt an instant bond and had a lot of overlaps in our lives […]