Deborah Oropallo

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Deborah Oropallo was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. According to the San Jose Museum of Art, Oropallo “received her B.F.A. from Alfred University in New York State, and her M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.” She now reside in Berkeley, California where she spends her days painting mundane object which slowly creating a striking image of poetic importance. She uses daily object such as ropes, tires, and doormats and transformed them into paintings where viewers can interpret a different meaning. In her most recent paintings, Oropallo’s uses the technique of digital photography and Iris prints. According to the LGI Digital & Fine Art Printing, “Iris Printing offer richness, detail and depth that clearly set them apart from traditional offset lithography.” Her paintings may seem far from sensuous paintings of other artist, yet the vibrant colors and suggestive overlays provide these objects visually dominant in a special way. When she discovered this new way of art, she continue to discover the hidden beauty that lay in the objects that surround us in our daily life. She uses objects that are from our industrial surroundings to provide us with messages that she sees within our economy. She used object such as railroad tracks, flour packages, stacks of cinder blocks, buckets, pipes, and other large industrial containers that we customarily ignore, to enhance our knowledge of what is going on in our economy. In a painting by Oropallo entitled “Oversize, 2001” made with Iris Print from oil on a larger than life canvas, she utilized large containers in our industry and paints to come up with a message to everybody. We can see at the far left hand corner, the container is labeled as hazardous materials, but in front of the whole paintings, she places the words “WELCOME.”
In this painting, Oropallo’s used many implied lines to create the containers. We can actually see where the orange is touchin...