Originally trained in painting at Alfred University and the University of California, Deborah Oropallo uses a variety of media in her practice, including photomontage, computer editing, print techniques, and paint. Many of the images she generates resemble photographs created using multiple exposures. But Oropallo’s surreal pastiches blend figures from multiple spaces and temporalities, such as 17th century portraits and contemporary fashion photos, disrupting the temporal and spatial specificity of film. Besides whimsically conflating histories, her work frequently challenges the viewer’s ideas of gender and symbols of power. The density of meanings contained within Oropollo’s veil-like images evokes the accelerated pace of the production, consumption, and proliferation of information in the digital age.

Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Oropallo is represented by the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco.

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