Born in 1969, Deborah Kern was born in the town of Planfield, NJ. As a child she took an early interest in art and later went on to attend Moore College of Art. She later went on to receive her BFA in Painting from Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1991.

To expand her vision, Deborah went on to spend the next 2 decades living and painting in New York, Mexico, South East Asia and the Greek Islands. Her images take on a feminine quality in line and form, Gothic, romantic, expressionistic and emotionally charged, her paintings often contain muted blacks and whites with pops of acidic highly saturated color. She enjoys intricate, almost sinister looking spidery lines against broad open sweeps of space.

You see the influence of travel in her work, most noticeably from Mexican artists such as Frida Kahlo and more expressionistic work of David Siquieros. One also detects a love of the quirky flat faces and figures found in European medieval paintings as well as early Greek representations of the human form.

The artist has exhibited and participated in many group shows such as The Astoria Artist Coalition Show in Athens Square Park, Astoria as well as numberous exhibitions with the Organization of Independent Artists in the Wesbeth Gallery in New York City and the Montserrat Gallery in Soho. She has also designed and taught a portfolio preparation class for aspiring artists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and has recently put her sculptural talents to work in designing and constructing elaborate fondant cakes for private clients.

Deborah’s work can be found in private collections in New York City, Philadelphia, Ventura, California, and Oaxaca, Mexico.

She has most recently displayed at the Larry Elder Gallery in Charlotte, NC, for the Juried Carolina’s Got Art Exhibition, as well as the Art with Heart Auction, Artfields 2018, Studio Channel Islands Collectors Choice Exhibit and Auction, as well as shows at the Hart-Weitzan Gallery, Advent Coworking, The Cultural Art Initiative, and Charlotte Art League where she won a merit award for 1 of 2 accepted works.

Deborah currently creates, teaches and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina with her 3 children.