BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deborah Bay is an American artist who specializes in tabletop and constructed photography, creating enigmatic in-camera images as well as digital composites. She often abstracts reality through color manipulation, slow shutter speed and a macro lens. The British Journal of Photography has featured her work on its cover, and her images have appeared in a variety of international publications. She exhibits nationally and is represented by Wall Space Gallery in Santa Barbara, California. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at State University of New York at New Paltz. She lives in Houston, Texas, and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from The University of Texas at Austin.

 

Note Frome the Gallery:

Sublimation printing on aluminum, various dimensions, variant impressions, and values:

 

Works are available in 20"x 16", 24"x 36", and 36"x 48" sizes, price points from $1200 to $3600. Works are also available in larger formats on request. Each work in various sizes is included in the numbered edition sequentially with the designations 1/10 VAR, 2/10 VAR, etc. Please contact the gallery at dmallisonart@gmail.com for pricing and more information.

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Houston Press, March 2016, Susie Tommany

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Left brain meets right brain at d.m. allison gallery in the mysterious micro-worlds of Deborah Bay, where the fine art photographer has played with scale and forced perspective to create mystical environments for her characters. In “Cyberia,” her one-inch-tall model railroad figures appear large as seen through the macro lens, where printed circuit boards become walls, the prongs of an integrated circuit serve as fencing and split wires morph into trees.

As we all rush out to buy the next big thing, we leave in our wake a sea of obsolete electronics, televisions and beta devices. Bay harvested the inner workings of computers, telephones and monitors and constructed what she calls “Cyberian cityscapes” in her miniature tabletop worlds.

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READ MORE HERE FROM HOUSTON PRESS

 

Wired Magazine:

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"Much of Bay’s work is conceptual and this is not the first time she’s created a project that involves a bit of social analysis. In an earlier project called Fringes of Cyberia, Bay shot miniature figurines wandering around old circuit boards (selections from the series are included at the end of the gallery above). In that project she uses the upright parts of the circuit boards to create a type of dystopian architecture and plays off the world of technology named in the series’ title." Wired Magazine, Jakob Schiller, April 2012

 

read more here, Jokob Schiller, Wired Magazine

 

 

 

"Big Bang" series:

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Bullets and photographs at the Griffin,

Boston Globe, By Mark Feeney, JANUARY 25, 2016

 

" ....The photographs in Deborah Bay’s “The Big Bang” are also in color — spectacularly so. The procedure Bay uses is simple, if also a bit shocking. She has police officers fire a weapon into plexiglass and then photographs the results. They vary greatly depending on the weapon ..."
 

read more about Deborah Bay's Balistic series here Boston Globe article, Jan. 2016

 

 

Houston artist captures the aftermath of a bullet's path: By Craig Hlavaty Published 4:06 pm, Thursday, January 30, 2014

 

Deborah Bay's series of stills of sheets of Plexiglass impacted by bullets shows the terrific force and unique patterns that come from everything from a 9mm round to a shotgun slug. 

"The Big Bang" collection will be at the wall space gallery in Santa Barbara, Calif., during February and March before moving onto Texas Tech's SRO Photo Gallery in Lubbock from March 31 until May 11. 

 

read more about Deborah Bay's "Big Bang: series here in the Houston Chronicle Jan. 2014

 

 

SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 

"Big Bang" Aker Imaging Gallery, May 2016, Houston TX

"Fringes of Cyberia" d. m. allison gallery, March 2016,

Houston TX

 

 

The Big Bang,” SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 2014 

“Internal Ballistics,” wall space gallery, Santa Barbara, California, 2014 

“Cyberspaces,” Galveston Arts Center, 2008 

“The Fringes of Cyberia,” Jackson Street Gallery, Richmond, Texas, 2006