Deborah Paulsen (b. in 1970) in Spokane, Washington, explores nature-based themes inspired by the local fauna and scenery in Ventura, California. Her encasutic paintings investigate color, form, and surface, creating fantastical shapes, luminescent surfaces with carved and built-up textures.
Paulsen holds a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Eastern Washington University, and an Associate in Applied Science from Spokane Falls Community College.
Over the last thirty years, Deborah Paulsen has exhibited her work in numerous venues, including the creation of site-specific installations. She collaborated with the Institute of Cultural Inquiry on projects such as Artist Edition: Searching for Sebald, The AIDS Chronicles, and The Manual of Lost Ideas, which the Getty Research Institute acquired.
Most recently, Paulsen has been exhibiting my work with the International Encaustic Artists, the Encaustic Art Institute, the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, NM, and Raven's Gallery in Los Angeles.
Paulsen is a professor of art at Los Angeles Mission College in Sylmar, CA, and lives North of Los Angeles in the small town of Fillmore, in Ventura County, CA.
