RAiR | 1996-97

Deborah Brackenbury

Born in Port Huron, Michigan, the Oklahoma-based photographer Deborah Brackenbury (1952- ) received her BFA in photography from Wayne State University and her MFA from the University of Florida at Gainesville. She has taught at the University of Florida, Haverford College, Ball State University, the University of Oklahoma, and most recently at Penland School of the Arts. For two decades from 1988 she exhibited in about one hundred solo and group shows. Grants include a Creative Projects Grant by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition in 2003. She describes her “interests in both ‘found’ and ‘manipulated’ objects [which] come together in my most recent series.” As of 2019 Deborah was working in the medium of weaving.

The Anderson Museum has one work by Deborah, a small ceramic bowl/platter, richly decorated around the edge with what looks like gold leaf, spattered with different colors of paint. In the center is a strange evocative photograph of a monkey-like creature which manages to look fierce and ethereal at the same time.    

Roswell Museum and Art Center

Rair exhibition • deborah brackenbury “the eye is the dog that leads us” • may 2 - june 8, 1997