Debra Yates
Recent Paintings
June 30 - July 31, 2007

Untitled, Paint/Collage on paper 22" x 30", Framed Size 30" x 37"	Untitled, mixed mediums on board, 30" x 24"
Untitlted, mixed mediums on board, 36" x 48"	Tarp (untitled), paint on canvas, 60" x 84"
Triptych (untitled), mixed mediums on board, 72" x 36" overall	Diptych (untitled), mixed mediums on canvas, 20" x 40" overall

Debra Yates works in several mediums including painting, drawing, mosaic and sculpture. She also works as a freelance architectural and landscape designer. She is a native “Conch” and lives in Key West, Florida. Yates has traveled extensively in her career, working and studying in New York City, Miami and Italy. In Brazil, Yates developed a long-time friendship and association with Roberto Burle Marx, the father of modern landscape design.

Her art emerges from diverse cultural backgrounds, achieving balance through her strong sense of color and shape. Yates does not assign titles to her abstract work as she prefers to leave the interpretation up to the viewer. She describes her creative process in formal terms as “an evolution of layering – of painting, color and texture.” Her paintings can be viewed as opulent structural color fields; landscapes of gesture, form and passion.

Debra Yates’ design projects for public spaces include:

2006 City of Palm Desert, Mosaic Bench park project
2003 Art in Public Places, City of Key West, 135’x 3’ abstract mosaic tile wall, Smathers Beach
1998 City of Miami Beach, Transit Shelter at 73rd Street and Collins Avenue, 135’x8’ semi-circular mosaic tile wall entitled “Drive-by Celebration”
1997Art in Public Places, Miami International Airport, 100’x 8’ barricade wall, mixed media abstract composition

To date she has received several awards in recognition of her art and design work

2007 Studios of Key West, recipient, artist studio space, The Armory, Key West
2004 Anne McKee Artist’s Fund grant
2004 “Simply Abstract”, a one-person exhibition of 23 paintings at the Tennessee Williams Theater
2002 Rodel Foundation fellowship, The Vermont Studio Center, at Johnson,Vermont
2000 South Florida Cultural Consortium, Fellowship Recipient
1997 Spectrum Worldwide Mosaic Tile Competition, residential design category
1995-96 American Society of Landscape Architects, Art in the Garden Award