Artist Portfolio

1. Debra Buchanan
Fine Artist: Painter, Mixed Media, Figurative Work, Drawing Mediums
2009 Idaho Toledo, Ohio 43605 | 419-693-3289
debrabuchanan2009@yahoo.com

2. Title:
Charlie
Medium:
Oil on linen; 4x6 in
Price:
$950 - SOLD

3. Title:
Till Daybreak and Shadows Flee
Medium:
Oil on Linen, 15 x 21
Price:
$1700 - SOLD

4. Title:
Suzzanne
Medium:
Oil on Linen; 13 x 17
Price:
$1500 - SOLD
Award:
2nd Award Toledo Area Artists
Exhibitions Published in The Blade
(Toledo, Ohio)
Third Award, Toledo Area Artists Exhibition
hosted at the Toledo Museum of Art,
Published Toledo Blade 2005

5. Title:
Red Plaid Shirt
Medium:
Pastel on Black Rag Paper; 28x18
Price:
Collection of the Artist
Awards:
Published in the City Paper
(Toledo, Ohio)

6. Title:
Suzzanne in Red
Medium:
Oil on Linen; 15x23
Price:
$1900

7. Title:
Toy Soldiers I
Medium:
Oil on Linen; 15x23
Price:

8. Title:
Toy Soldiers II
Medium:
Oil on Canvas on hardboard;
9x13
Price:
$2500.00, Sold
Awards:
Published in Toledo Museum of Art’s
Artmatters 2010, Toledo Area Artists
Exhibition Catalog 2010, Toledo Museum
of Art’s Late Exhibition Brochure
Molly Morepeth Canaday Award for
Painting, Toledo Area Artists Exhibition,
hosted at Toledo Museum of Art,
Toledo, Ohio

9. Title:
Embrace of Life
Medium:
Graphite on Watercolor Paper;
25x37
Price:
$1900

10. Title:
Molly, Molly
Medium:
Graphite on Bristol Board; 13x17
Price:
$295 - SOLD
Awards:
Published in Toledo Museum
of Art’s “ArtMatters”

11. Title:
Christine I
Medium:
Charcoal, 24x30
Price:
$595 - Sold

12. Title:
Christine II
Medium:
Charcoal, 24x30
Price:
$595

13. Title:
Christine III
Medium:
Charcoal, 24x30
Price:
$595

14. Title:
Three Graces
Medium:
Oil on Canvas; 30x40
Price:
$2500

15. Title:
In Dew Time
Medium:
Oil on Linen; 20x20
Price:
$1900

16. Title:
Butterfly House I
Medium:
Oil on Gesso Board, 9x12
Price:
$495 - SOLD

17. Title:
Butterfly House II
Medium:
Oil on Gesso Board; 9x12
Price:
$495 - SOLD

18. Title:
Seedpods Study in Red I
Medium:
Oil on Gesso Board; 9x12
Price:
$495

19. Title:
Stone Study on Red II
Medium:
Oil on Gesso Board 9x12
Price:
$495

20. Title:
Denny Bug, Denny Bug
Medium:
Photo Collage Transfer Mixed
Media 22x30
Price:
$695

21. Title:
Innocence Betrayed
Medium:
Photo collage transfer media;
32x40
Price:
$495
Award:
Award of Merrit, Lexington Art
League’s National Exhibition,
The Healing Power of Art,
Lexington , Kentucky

22. Title:
Beauty Beyond Chaos
Medium:
Handmade paper/
Mixed media, 32x40
Price: $1250.00
Award:
Best of Show, Roots of Diversity
Multicultural Exhibition,
Toledo, Ohio

23. Education
2004 Bowling Green State University, Masters in Education, Gallery Representation
Curriculum/Teaching Collector’s Corner, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
1993 Columbus College of Art and Design, BFA, Illustration/Advertising
1979 Louisiana Tech University, European Study Program Seminars/ Lectures/ Service
2011 Lecture on Color Theory, Way Branch Library, Perrysburg, Ohio
Awards Collage and Mixed Media Workshop, Prizm Creative Community,
2011 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, 93rd Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Perrysburg, Ohio
Resumé
Toledo Federation of Artists, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Jewelry Making Workshop, Prizm Creative Community,
Perrysburg, Ohio
2010 Leonardo da Vinci Award, Salon de Refuse,
Prizm Creative Community, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, 2010 Painting Seminars, Prizm Creative Community, Perrysburg, Ohio,
Toledo, Ohio 3 workshops 2010,9,8
Drawing Classes, Taught drawing I & II at Owens Community College
2009 Second Place, Findlay Art League, A different Perspective, for 3 years, 2008,7,6
Findlay, Ohio
Picasso Award, Prizm Members Show, Bowling Green State 2008 Knitting for the Needy, developed & implemented a knitting
University, Bowling Green, Ohio program for 6th grade students at Larchmont Elementary School,
Honorable Mention, Prizm Members Show, Bowling Green State donating knitted items to the YMCA Women’s Shelter
University, Bowling Green, Ohio
2007 Lecture on Painting Technique, Perrysburg, Ohio
2005 Third Award, 87th Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Toledo Federation Mixed Media Techniques Workshop, Prizm Creative Community,
of Artists, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Perrysburg, Ohio
Award of Merit, Findlay Art League’s 29th Annual Juried Show,
Findlay, Ohio 1997 Served on the Board of Spectrum Friends of Fine Art for three years
Hancock Youth Leadership Award, Findlay Art League’s including volunteering as the Chairperson for Education and
29th Annual Juried Show, Findlay, Ohio the Ways and Means Committees, 1997,8,9
2004 Purchase Award, 86th Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Publications
Toledo Federation of Artists, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio 2012 NOW WOW Project II Exhibition, Hudson Gallery, Sylvania, Ohio
Second Place, Roots of Diversity Multicultural Exhibition, NOWOH Show, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
2011 The Toledo Blade, August 28, 2011
2002 Best of Show, Roots of Diversity Multicultural Exhibition,
Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Toledo Museum of Art, Artmatters, September-December 2011
Second Place, Spectrum, Salon de Refuse’ Exhibition, Toledo, Ohio Toledo Museum of Art, Artmatters, January-April, 2011
Award of Merit, The Healing Power of Art National Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Late 2011 Exhibition Brochure
Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky 93rd Toledo Area Artist 2011 Exhibition Catalog
2001 Award for Outstanding Work, Skokie 40th Annual Art Festival, 2010 The City Paper, November 10, 2010
Skokie, Illinois The Perrysburg Journal, June 2010
2000 Honorable Mention, Spectrum Gallery, Members Show, Toledo, Ohio 2005 The Toledo Blade, January 28, 2005
The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, May 2005
1997 Award of Distinction, Spectrum Gallery, Jewelry Miniatures &
Glass Show, Toledo, Ohio
2001 The City Paper, September 2001
1996 Third Place, Portrait Figure Drawing Show, Spectrum Gallery,
Toledo, Ohio Exhibitions
Third Place, Spectrum Gallery, Impressions of Nature Show, 2011 93rd Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Federation of Artists,
Toledo, Ohio Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Award of Distinction, Spectrum Gallery, Fall Open Show, Prizm Creative Community, Toledo Museum of Art Community
Toledo, Ohio Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
Best of Show, Spectrum Gallery, Ebony and Ivory Show, Toledo, Ohio
Honorable Mention, Spectrum Gallery, Ebony and Ivory Show, 2010 Salon de Refuse, Prizm Creative Community, Arts Commission
Toledo, Ohio of Greater Toledo Parkwood Gallery, Toledo, Ohio

24. 2009 Findlay Art League, A Different Perspective, Findlay, Ohio 2000 Harrisburg 72nd Annual National/International Exhibition,
Northwest Ohio Show, Bowling Green State University, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Bowling Green, Ohio Midwestern Museum of Art Gallery, Elkhart, Indiana
Prizm Creative Community, Members Exhibition, Spectrum Gallery Members Show, Toledo, Ohio
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Angelwood Gallery, Group Show, Grand Rapids, Ohio
Spectrum Gallery Open Summer Show, Toledo, Ohio
2008 Lima Art Space, Spring Exhibition, Lima, Ohio Studio Artists’ Exhibition, 20 North Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
90th Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Toledo Federation of Artists, Lourdes College Franciscan Center, Solo Show, Sylvania, Ohio
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Resumé 2007 Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Garden Exhibit,
1999
Spectrum Gallery Members Show, Toledo, Ohio
Spectrum Gallery Spring Open Show, Toledo, Ohio
continued
Parkwood Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
Owens Community College, Faculty Exhibition,
Studio Exhibition, 20 North Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
Spectrum Gallery Award Winners Show, Toledo, Ohio
Walter E. Terhune Gallery, Toledo, Ohio Spectrum Gallery Fiber Photography Show, Toledo, Ohio
Owens Community College Faces Exhibition, Lourdes College Franciscan Center, Solo Show, Sylvania, Ohio
Walter E. Terhune Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
Guerilla Gallery, Group Show, Toledo, Ohio
Art on the Mall, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
2006 Owens Community College, Faculty Exhibition,
Walter E. Terhune Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
1998 Spectrum Gallery Impressions of Nature Show, Toledo, Ohio
2005 Findlay Art League, 29th Annual Juried Show, Findlay, Ohio Salon de Refuse’ Show, Spectrum Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
Art on the Mall, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Art on the Mall, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
2004 Owens Community College, Faculty Exhibition, 1997 Spectrum Gallery Member’s Show, Toledo, Ohio
Walter E. Terhune Gallery, Toledo, Ohio Group Show at the Medical College of Ohio Mulford Library,
5 X 7 Group Show, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Toledo, Ohio
86th Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Toledo Federation of Artists, Spectrum Gallery Figure Drawing Portrait Show, Toledo, Ohio
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Art on the Mall, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
2003 85th Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Toledo Federation of Artists, Spectrum Gallery Jewelry Miniatures Glass Show, Toledo, Ohio
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Spectrum Gallery Open Fall Show, Toledo, Ohio
Roots of Diversity Multicultural Exhibition, Arts Commission
of Greater Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
The Black Swamp Arts Festival, Bowling Green, Ohio
2002 Great Lakes Pastel Society Regional Show, Birmingham, Michigan
15th Annual Roots of Diversity Multicultural Exhibition, Arts
Commission of Greater Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
Lexington Art League, The Healing Power of Art National Exhibition,
Lexington, Kentucky
Lourdes College Franciscan Center Solo Show, Sylvania, Ohio
The Salon de Refuse’ Show, 20 North Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
2001 SeaGate Gallery, Solo Show, Toledo, Ohio
Lexington Art League, The Nude 2001 National/International
Exhibition, Lexington, Kentucky
Turning Point Gallery, 2nd Annual Photography Exhibition,
Washington DC
Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Federation of Artists, Toledo
Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Arts on the Mall, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio

25. My Artwork is my voice in visual format, expressing feelings, thoughts I work in a variety of media including but not limited to oils, mixed
and emotions that I am unable to articulate verbally. media, pastels, and collage. This permits me the freedom to
select the medium that will emphasize and intensify the concept
Part of my work addresses social issues such as child abuse, elder that I am attempting to communicate. Incorporating contrast,
care and alcoholism. Some of my work is completed to simply make texture, dramatic lighting, strong chromatic colors into dynamic
an emotional impact on the viewer and intended to elicit a raw compositions, I strive for technical excellence in any medium that I
emotional response. All of my work is meant to inner act with the choose to work in.
viewer on an emotional level no matter what that response might
Artist
be: love, loathing, shock, appalled, tranquil, thought provoking. Some could argue that there is no commonality in my body of
works that it is not cohesive, that you cannot look at my work
At times I draw inspiration for my work from events in my life that and immediately recognize it as my work. I would state that the
have had a profound impact on me. Other times my work is an thread that is woven through my work that is indeed binding is the
Statement eruption of emotion that captures a moment in time, a glance,
or an atmosphere. And still there are times when my work is more
expression of, exploration of, and the quality of emotional content.
For it is an elusive, intangible quality that I strive to attain in my work
narrative in nature, telling a story as painting did during the time of and not easily recognizable and sometimes as subtle as a whisper
the Renaissance. There are yet other occasions when I incorporate while other times as shocking as a slap in the face, however my
self composed poetry and verse into the work. goal is to elicit an emotional connection between the work, the
artist and the viewer.
My work is part of me and holds a part of me with in it and I want
my work to touch people with emotion.