Dottie Stanley

''I am an award winning and internationally collected artist, most noted for my finding beauty in the everyday scenes that most of us take for granted. I specialize in painting figures, landscapes, portraits and still lifes. You can see examples of my fine art by visiting the Gallery on this website. To learn more about my art background, visit the Biography tab. To find out where I am currently exhibiting or where future exhibits are planned check out Events. The easy way to learn more about my art or if you have questions is to Click here to send me an email.


My passion for painting started as a young child, and was enhanced when I began studying portraits, figures and still life with Arthur Maynard at the Ridgewood Art Institute in New Jersey. Although not well known he is considered a master being a protégée of Frank Vincent DuMonde, in turn a protégée and contemporary of Winslow Homer.

Some of the notable artists with whom I have studied are: Everett Raymond Kinstler, official White House and The Smithsonian portraitist; David Leffel of Taos, New Mexico; sculptor Stephen DeStaebler of the San Francisco Art Institute; Maurice Lapp, of Chicago and Santa Rosa; Harvey Dinnerstein, Art Students League, New York City; William Scott Jennings of Sedona, AZ, Ken Auster of Laguna Beach, CA, and Mary Beth McKenzie and Wolf Kahn of New York City.

My greatest enthusiasm is working with figures, and I have had the opportunity to do so worldwide. I have developed art featuring the people who work in market places in Italy, Mexico, Kenya and Columbia – including the famed coffee man of Columbia. Native Americans are proud and fascinating people and my art features the Navajo, Apache and Plains nations. Homeless people also exhibit pride in spite of their circumstances and I have presented their character in my series about the homeless. Pride is international, and in Kenya I was thrilled to artistically capture the people, particularly the Masai. You can see these and more on the gallery pages of this website.

I use my art to help charities help women through fund-raising events. For that and because of my financial investment background as a certified financial manager which I also use to help women world-wide, I received a 2007 Living Legacy Award from the Women’s International Center. I am a Fellow of the American Artists Professional League. I am also a member of the Salmagundi Club of New York; the Allied Artists of America; Oil Painters of America; the San Diego Museum of Fine Arts Artists Guild. I am past President and Life Member of the La Jolla (California) Art Association and the founding President/Director of the Allied Artists’ Association of San Diego. I have been a member of the Art Students League of New York, the Santa Rosa (California) Art Guild, The Market Street Group (of San Diego), and the San Diego Art Institute.

My works are in collections throughout the United States, Italy and Mexico, and are award winners in international and national juried shows. They have also been exhibited in museums, including the San Diego Museum of Art and the Bonita (California) Cultural Museum and Art Center. I have my studio in La Jolla.''

Deborah Brown

I am interested in the visible world and how we view it through the lens of our culture. My subjects have included urban and pastoral landscapes, birds, flowers, undersea environments, and dogs that I have cared for as a volunteer in a shelter. I have painted ambiguous encounters between animals and humans that result from the collision of the natural world with our technological conquest.

My most recent work depicts the post-apocalyptic beauty of Bushwick, Brooklyn, where I have a studio and where I am involved as an artist and as a community activist. Parts of Bushwick resemble a lunar landscape of industrial rubble and urban decay. Abandoned houses stand alone in fields of debris; macabre elements such as clumps of shoes dangle from wires above the street; and morning glories intertwine with barbed wire on the perimeter of junk yards.

This odd landscape possesses a simultaneous allure and menace that I take as the starting point for my paintings. Based on what I see, I invent a hodge-podge of architectural amalgams in which modern structures are grafted onto older ones. The result is manic, comical, and poignant. I represent candy-colored skies, ghostly out-of-focus imagery, and dark silhouettes with inviting, painterly surfaces to depict wires, satellite dishes, and cement factories. Because I am intrigued by the social, ecological, and economic collisions in the neighborhood, I seek to provoke thought about what is taking place in our post-industrial landscape. I invite the viewer to enter an urban dystopia where familiar elements combine in unfamiliar ways create a luscious unease.

A second aspect of my work is public art, in which my paintings are fabricated for permanent installation in public spaces using materials such as mosaic. My commissions include a series of mosaic murals commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the Houston Street subway station in Manhattan, a suite of roundels for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Terminal at the Port of Miami, and outdoor artwork for Garfield Avenue Station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System in Jersey City for New Jersey Transit. I am currently designing public artwork for an animal shelter and veterinary clinic in Memphis, Tennessee.


1978
1976 M.F.A., Indiana University, Bloomington
B.A., Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

2005
Nominated for Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

selected private and corporate collections
Raymond J. Learsy and Melva Bucksbaum, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., New York
Philip Morris Companies Inc., New York
Fullbright and Jaworski, New York
Reader's Digest Corporation, Pleasantville, New York
City of New York, Health and Hospitals Corporation
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles
Amerada Hess Corporation, New York
Hebrew Home for the Aged, Riverdale, New York
United States Dept. of State, U.S. Embassy, Bogota, Colombia
Princess Cruises, Los Angeles
The McGraw-Hill Companies, New York
Tudor Investments, Greenwich, Connecticut
ExxonMobil, Houston, Texas
Fidelity Investments, Boston