Deborah Ballard

Artist Statement

2006

A great deal of my life as a sculptor has surrounded the study of the human form: the results of this focus have been a journey that continues to evolve into an array of inexhaustible possibilities. Constant experimentation has led me through many processes, seemingly countless types of mediums, and thought patterns, which persistently employ the use of the human form.

Years of observing the interaction between people and walls have led to the focus of my recent and ongoing body of work.

Coexistence between an inanimate form, a wall, and the human form has limitless possibilities that result in a unique story being told by the artist with each depiction. As the observer scans this artist’s three-dimensional sketchbook the value of a wall to be incorporated with the gesture of the human form to echo music, lean against, hide behind, listen to, pray beside, walk on, or even walk through demonstrates how even walls of exact same dimensions can become unique when in the presence of a human form.

Being the artist of point, I use the female figure as the human form to interact with walls to best deliver the emotional content of the piece to the casual observer. It is through the life experiences of each casual observer that a unique relationship between the sculpture and in individual can be created as the emotional content is explored.

  Most recent exhibitions include:

2006     Sculpture and Paintings, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas

             3D on Swiss, Invitational Exhibition, Dallas Contemporary Museum, Dallas, Texas

2004    D. Ballard, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas.

“50^th Anniversary Celebration”, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas

2003    Deborah Ballard Sculpture, Cidnee Patrick Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

2001     D. Ballard Sculpture, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas.

2000        Buffalo Bayou Art Park, Invitational sculpture exhibition, Houston, Texas.

The Sculpture of D. Ballard, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas