Deborah Sibony

Framed Mixed Media Monotype "Sfumato"

2019

Deborah Sibony is a Bay Area printmaker born in Pisa, Italy, of North African heritage. She came to the United States at age seventeen and has lived in the Bay Area for the past 35 years. While working full time as a CD package designer, Sibony took a printmaking class and fell in love with the process. Sibony found work as a master printer/workshop instructor at Aurobora Press in San Francisco where she worked with many notable artists for seven years. She currently teaches and mentors artists in her printmaking studio in Berkeley. Printmaking, and monotypes in particular, continue to be Sibony’s passion. The process inspires experimentation and has a spontaneous nature that appeals to her. She takes photographs, which she uses as a starting point for an idea. Combined with the monotype, she uses a variety of mark-making methods, photo transfers, ink, drawing, staining, and painting, each assimilating a progression of ideas. Color, line, and form take shape, and the landscape is transformed, weathered and distilled, transporting the viewer to a place that is familiar, yet unknown, reflective and engaging. Sibony’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including the Turner Print Museum, Bankside Gallery in London, and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. Sibony’s work can also be found in private and public collections including John Muir Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco Hilton, Sarasota Ritz Carlton, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, University of California Berkeley, Bancroft Library, among others.