Deborah Oropallo
{{Short description|American artist}}
Deborah Oropallo (born 1954) is an American artist who is best known for her digital montages. Oropallo produces artworks that conflates symbolic meanings, history and gender.{{cite web|date=2002-04-30|title=30 Apr 2002, 33 - The San Francisco Examiner|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/462553379/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=3|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-03|website=The San Francisco Examiner|location=San Francisco, California|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503134818/http://www.newspapers.com/image/462553379/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=3 |archive-date=2021-05-03 }}{{cite web|date=2003-04-02|title=2 Apr 2003, Page 54 - The Los Angeles Times|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/189791455/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=2|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-03|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503135530/http://www.newspapers.com/image/189791455/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=2 |archive-date=2021-05-03 }}{{cite web|date=2009-01-15|title=15 Jan 2009, Page 29 - Fort Collins Coloradoan|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/226883864/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=2|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-03|website=Fort Collins Coloradoan|location=Fort Collins, Colorado|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503135719/http://www.newspapers.com/image/226883864/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=2 |archive-date=2021-05-03 }}{{cite web|date=2009-08-07|title=7 Aug 2009, 17 - The Times-News|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/568194806/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=3|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-03|website=The Times-News|location=Twin Falls, Idaho|page=17|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503135940/http://www.newspapers.com/image/568194806/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=3 |archive-date=2021-05-03 }}{{cite web|title=Deborah Oropallo - 103 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy|url=https://www.artsy.net/artist/deborah-oropallo|access-date=2021-05-01|website=www.artsy.net}}{{cite web|last=LensCulture|first=Deborah Oropallo {{!}}|title=Guise - Photographs byDeborah Oropallo|url=https://www.lensculture.com/articles/deborah-oropallo-guise|access-date=2021-05-01|website=LensCulture}} Oropallo lives and works in Berkeley, California.
Background
Oropallo was born and raised in Hackensack, New Jersey. She was heavily inspired from pop arts by prominent artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg since an early age.{{cite web|title=Deborah Oropallo – U.S. Department of State|url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/deborah_oropallo/|access-date=2021-05-01|language=en-US}} She studied in Alfred University and got her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from there; and later received her Masters of Fine Arts from University of California, Berkeley.{{cite web|title=Deborah Oropallo|url=https://www.kooness.com/artists/photo-basel-artists-deborah-oropallo|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-01|website=Kooness|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501172702/https://www.kooness.com/artists/photo-basel-artists-deborah-oropallo |archive-date=2021-05-01 }}
Earlier in her career, she mostly produced paintings from already found images, but over the years has evolved to incorporate digital technology.{{cite web|title=Deborah Oropallo {{!}} Biography {{!}} Catharine Clark Gallery|url=https://cclarkgallery.com/artists/bios/deborah-oropallo|access-date=2021-05-01|website=cclarkgallery.com}}{{cite web|title=22 Jan 2014, G3|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/444624213/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-03|website=The Boston Globe|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503141554/http://www.newspapers.com/image/444624213/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=1 |archive-date=2021-05-03 }} Since 2017, she has collaborated in making video art with Andy Rappaport.{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=CCG at Untitled, Art Miami Beach |url=https://issuu.com/cclarkgallery/docs/brochure_8_11_reformat_final/s/168089 |publisher=Catharine Clark Gallery}}
Oropallo's works are held in several museums collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boise Art Museum, and Stanford University Museum of Art.{{cite web|date=2012-04-27|title=27 Apr 2012, Page Z053 - The Santa Fe New Mexican|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/208021828/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=2|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-03|website=The Santa Fe New Mexican|location=Santa Fe, New Mexico|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503135055/http://www.newspapers.com/image/208021828/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=2 |archive-date=2021-05-03 }}{{cite web|date=1998-10-29|title=29 Oct 1998, 51 - The San Francisco Examiner|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/457914694/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=5|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-03|website=The San Francisco Examiner|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503135401/http://www.newspapers.com/image/457914694/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=5 |archive-date=2021-05-03 }}{{cite web|title=Deborah Oropallo {{!}} Artist {{!}} Anderson Collection at Stanford University|url=https://anderson.stanford.edu/work_artist/deborah-oropallo/|access-date=2021-05-01|language=en}}{{cite web|title=28 Jun 2002, Page E20 - Star Tribune|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/250403127/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-03|website=Star Tribune|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503140559/http://www.newspapers.com/image/250403127/?terms=Deborah%20Oropallo&match=1 |archive-date=2021-05-03 }}
Awards
- National Endowment for the Arts (1991)
- Modern Masters Award (1998)
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (2005)
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Category:People from Hackensack, New Jersey
Category:American digital artists
Category:Artists from New Jersey
Category:American women digital artists
Category:Alfred University alumni
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:20th-century American artists
Category:20th-century American women artists
Category:21st-century American artists
Category:21st-century American women artists
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