Deborah Cornell

Deborah Cornell works in traditional and digital prints, collaborative multimedia works, and video installation. Prizes include the Grand Prix D’Honneur from the International Print Triennial of Krakow (for contributions to the discipline) and also the Grand Prix for the multimedia work “Reflecting Place”, first prize Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, and a fellowship from Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Exhibitions have included Town Hall New York, Krakow Print Triennial/Laureate Exhibition, Novosibirsk Print Biennial Russia, Split Graphics. Cornell has received support from the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Deja Majorca Archeological Foundation, and has completed residencies in Buenos Aires, Belgium, Venice, and Louisiana. Collections include the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Hangzhou Art Academy, Turku Art Museum, RISD Museum, RMIT Melbourne and others. Deborah Cornell is Chair of Printmaking at Boston University’s School of Visual Arts.
My work concerns environment and culture, physics, and the perceptual world. The seemingly inevitable patterns of water and air create an echo in our internal memories, a sense of flow and continuity. I am interested in the juxtaposed imagery of nature and science, the effects of human presence in the environment, and the feeling of unending vastness, generated in the familiar rhythms of the environment and its forces.