A Pop-Up Sale of Artworks by Deborah Faye Lawrence
A celebration of 45 years of incredible work: 125+ collages, priced to move!
WHERE: The Grocery Studios, 3001 21st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144
WHEN: Saturday, May 16, 2026 1:00-7:00PM (one day only!)
Meet the Artist 3:00-4:00 PM
Collage and acrylic on vintage TV tray
20.75” x 16”
A preview of the exhibition and works for sale is at: https://www.deedeeworks.com/pages/popup/popup.html
The Grocery Studios presents Dee Dee Does Downsizing, an installation of over 125 artworks by Deborah Faye Lawrence, an artist who has been registering her grievances against tyranny since 1980. She disrupts us with collaged images that create unexpected juxtapositions paired with an intense choice of words, images, and references. The May 16th pop-up exhibition and art sale features 45 years of powerful collages which address political events, social activism, feminism, and personal history.
In his reference to Deborah’s prestigious Twining Humber Award in 2015, Michael Spafford wrote, “Deborah has developed over a period of more than forty years, a unique and powerfully visual method of expressing her deep feelings about injustice, waste, and stupidity. It takes great intelligence and amazing effort and skill to do what she does.”
Many events of the past decades provoked rage and compelled Lawrence to create thoughtful, hard-hitting, often sardonic works in reaction. Their messages remain uncannily relevant given our current state of events. Her collages from the mid-2000s often address her personal psychological circumstances after experiencing brain surgery due to a slip & fall accident. Other works, in particular those from the 1980’s-early 90’s, evoke dreamlike, surreal worlds with lush color palettes.
Like so many of her generation, Lawrence now aims to downsize her inventory in anticipation of moving into a smaller, more manageable living situation. This pop-up exhibition and sale offers an opportunity to achieve that goal while also getting her artworks back out into the world, where they can be enjoyed by her admirers, both old and new.
Lawrence has been a recipient of the 2015 Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Lifetime Achievement Award in Visual Art, Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Award (Special Recognition), and numerous grants and awards from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Western States Arts Federation, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, Artist Trust, Washington State Arts Commission, WESTSTAFNEA, California Arts Council, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Seattle Office of Cultural Affairs. Lawrence resides with her husband in Seattle. A monograph of her artwork, Dee Dee Does Utopia was published by Marquand Books in 2008. For a more extensive resume see https://www.deedeeworks.com/
Hosted by The Grocery Studios https://thegrocerystudios.com
Due to limited street parking please consider ride sharing or using Light Rail to Beacon Hill Station.
More information: Nancy Kiefer – nkieferart@mac.com
Fluid Self-Portrait, 2021
Collage and acrylic on vintage TV tray
20.75” x 16”