Debra Roinestad Primary Medium: Collage Other media: Photography, Jewelry, Textile, Mixed media Keywords: Conceptual, Abstract, Nature, Surreal, Illustration

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Artist Statement
My art is a creation of backgrounds or scenes which are usually grey/dark and add “color” by the use of nature to restore life, dignity, and humor to a bleak surrounding. My goal is to capture or illustrate images that have a universal theme as a means of unifying our busy society.

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Artist Bio
Debra (Segarra) Roinestad embraces the oft times dismal, mundane, or ordinary and seeks to transform and restore dignity via humor and the beauty of natural elements. Photography and photo collage are the means by which she explores the world, capturing universal themes and encouraging the viewer to consider expansions of perception by means of contradiction and to question arbitrary constraints. Her reference points are influenced yet test the boundaries of Russian Constructivism, Pop Art, and Dadaism.

Roinestad graduated with a B.F.A. in Design at New York City's School of Visual Arts (SVA) in 1990. While at SVA, she worked closely with international design icons Chris Austopchuk and Skip Sorvino. Roinestad has created book covers for virtually every major New York publisher, and has contributed extensively to magazines including Popular Photography, Consumer Reports, Vogue Patterns and National Jeweler. It is estimated that individual commercial printings of her book covers and magazine designs are in excess of 800 million, to date. Her photo collage and photography have been displayed in galleries, museums and private collections.


Additional Information
Please visit www.debraroinestad.com

Exhibitions below:

http://www.fairhaven-furniture.com/web/gallery/gallery_index.html

http://www.ctpost.com/default/article/In-the-galleries-calendar-371921.php

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