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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006: "Shades of Nature":
Gallery of Caribbean Art,
Barbados
2004: "Colors of The
Caribbean": Gallery Of
Caribbean Art, Barbados
2003: "Kaliedoscope": Queens
Park Gallery, Barbados
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007: "Silk Is…": US District
Courthouse, Greenbelt, MD.
2006: "Emerging Visions on
Silk": Ratner Museum,
Bethesda, MD.
2006: "Orchids in Art": ...
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Artist Galleries:
Gallery Of Caribbean Art,
Speightstown, Barbados.
Gallery Of Caribbean Art,
Hilton Hotel, Barbados.
Horizons Gallery, Trinidad.
Instant Karma Gallery,
Fuquay-Varina, NC.
Fallons Creative Flowers,
Raleigh, NC.
Whole Life Center, Raleigh,
NC....
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Artist Reviews:
PICTURES ALL SPUN IN SILK
Nature is highlighted at the
Gallery of Caribbean Art,
Speightstown, where artist
Deborah Younglao in “Shades Of
Nature” presents exotic works
on silk.
Using imagination and several
pages out of Nature's book,
and sensual silk as a backdrop
and vivid fabric dyes (applied
like ...
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
The Lundes, Salem, SC, USA.
S. Johnson, Sunset Beach, NC,
USA.
Coastal Cat Clinic,
Jacksonville, NC, USA.
M. Economy, Raleigh, NC,
USA....
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Artist Statement for Deborah Younglao
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I create paintings using silk as my canvas and liquid dyes as my paint. The dyes, which are painted in layers with a paintbrush, spread as soon as they touch the silk. The way the transparent dyes move and blend on the silk is like a dance, which I find endlessly fascinating. Silk has a luminous quality unmatched by any other natural fiber, and because the transparent dyes actually become part of the fabric instead of sitting on the surface, they sparkle with wonderful brilliance. Spontaneous and unpredictable textural effects are created when substances like salt, sugar, water or ethanol are added while the silk is still wet. I enjoy the challenge of not having complete control of my medium and am always surprised by the outcome, most of the time pleasantly. For clearly defined shapes, I draw the outlines with a liquid resist, which encloses the dyes within its borders, or I paint on hot wax to preserve colors that I don’t want changed by subsequent layers of dye. As the dyes move and merge on the silk, the result is a creation that can never be reproduced exactly, so that each piece is truly one-of-a-kind. After painting, the dyes are heat-set to make them permanent and the resist or wax removed. The finished paintings are mounted on acid free foamboard and framed.
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