Deborah Oropallo

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Deborah Oropallo (born 1954) is an American artist who is best known for her digital montages. Oropallo produces artworks that conflates symbolic meanings, history and gender. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Background

Oropallo was born and raised in Hackensack, New Jersey. She was heavily inspired from pop arts by prominent artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg since an early age. [7] She studied in Alfred University and got her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from there, and later received her Masters of Fine Arts from University of California, Berkeley. [8] Earlier in her career, she mostly produced paintings from already found images, but over the years has evolved to incorporate digital technology. [9] [10]

Oropallo continues to live and work in Berkeley, CA. Oropallo's works are held in the collections of several art museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boise Art Museum, and Stanford University Museum of Art. [11] [12] [13] [14]

Awards

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  5. ↑ "Deborah Oropallo - 103 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  6. ↑ LensCulture, Deborah Oropallo |. "Guise - Photographs byDeborah Oropallo". LensCulture. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Deborah Oropallo – U.S. Department of State" . Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  8. ↑ "Deborah Oropallo". Kooness. Archived from the original on 2021-05-01. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  9. ↑ "Deborah Oropallo | Biography | Catharine Clark Gallery". cclarkgallery.com. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  10. ↑ "22 Jan 2014, G3". The Boston Globe . Archived from the original on 2021-05-03. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
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