Artist
Debra Keirce
United States
Born in 1961
Joined Artisor: February 2024
Artist Stats
Total pieces sold: 1
Highest price piece sold: $3,150 (Words of Wisdom)
Average price per square inch: $10
Bio
Originally from Detroit, Debra Keirce is an accomplished fine artist. In her Northern Virginia studios, she paints traditional scenes and illusions in oils up to four feet tall, with a specialty in true miniature pieces as small as your palm.
- Artworks
- Curriculum Vitae
- Previous works sold
No current artwork for sale
Although I have been a full time professional artist since 2010, I list here only the last three years of accomplishments, in the interest of brevity.
Invited to 5 Day Artist Residency – Deployment on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone
I am the incredibly fortunate recipient of an invitation to an artist’s residency at sea. I was invited to be a guest of the Cutter Stone crew Nov 11 to 15, 2022. We set sail out of N. Charleston, SC, USA. My mission was to witness, document and participate in as many stories of the service men and women at work as possible. Then, I had the honor of taking those experiences and creating compelling paintings that share the stories of our military for generations to come. My expenses were paid for by a retired navy captain who loves art and the Coast Guard Art Program.
All of my artwork produced from this residency is created for the COGAP collection.
2022 Best of Show George Gray Award US Coast Guard Art Program Exhibition
Awarded the best in show for the 2022 COGAP Inaugural Exhibition of 38 juried paintings from 27 artists. These works are now part of the government art collection. They are exhibited in
venues such as Salmagundi Club, The Union League Club NYC, The Federal National Memorial, the offices of members of Congress, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials, the State Department overseas, the Art in Embassies program, and many other military services and Coast Guard Locations nationwide.
My winning painting is titled “Nurdles and Ghost Nets and Flotsam.” The collection facilitators renamed it “Debris cleanup in Hawaii” when they took possession of the painting.
2021 NOTABLE COMMISSION
Chosen to create 11 original paintings (8 portraits 30″x40″ and 3 palm sized still life paintings) for the Langham Hotel in Boston, MA. The Langham Hotel is the former Federal Reserve Bank of Boston building. I was chosen to complete 8 portraits of past Boston Fed presidents, to hang in the hotel’s fine dining area. I also was commissioned to paint three miniature pieces for the bar area. This is a great honor. I lived in Boston in the 1990’s and this project is a delight on so many levels.
It is the largest commission I have ever endeavored.
2021 WINE LABEL
Tongue River Winery in Montana purchased my painting “Cherry Atop a Roemer” and asked to use the image on one of their wine labels. Of course, I said yes.
GOVERNMENT COLLECTION
I am a juried U.S. Coast Guard artist with a total of 8 works in the government collection. In 2021, three of my paintings were juried into the Coast Guard Art Program permanent collection. In 2022 I had two juried into the collection. One of my pieces was awarded the best of show George Gray award in 2022. In 2023, three of my paintings were accepted into the collection.
AUTHOR
Invited contributing author – monthly articles on Bold Brush Blog, an art sales and marketing publication through Fine Art Studios Online, with an audience of approximately 70,000 subscribers
JUDGE
Invited to judge several local and international art exhibitions.
Most recently, the 2023 Miniature Fine Art Show, an international exhibition at Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head, NC and the Springfield Art Guild 2023 exhibition at Green Spring Gardens in VA
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2024 Smith Galleries in Harrisonburg, VA all of July
2020 Customs House Art Museum, Clarkesville, TN
2019 Wine Attic in Clifton, VA
2019 Bella Arte Gallery Solo shows, art talks and Interactive Demonstration in Midlothian, VA 2019 Purcellville Library, Purcellville, VA
Previous solo shows at Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head, NC, Ellis Nicholson Gallery in Charleston, SC and Huckleberry Fine Art Gallery in Rockville, MD
2026 3 person show WaterWorks Art Museum, Miles City, MT – Good As Gold
2025 3 person show at Deines Cultural Center Museum, Russell, KS – Good As Gold
2025 3 person show MonDak Heritage Museum in Sidney, MT – Small Wonders
2024 Western Spirit Art Show and Sale, Old West Museum, Cheyenne, WY
2024 Miniature Art Society of Florida, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
2024 3 person show Albrecht Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, MO – Small Wonders
2023 Albrecht-Kemper Museum Annual Membership Exhibition, St. Joseph, MO
2023 MonDak Heritage Museum Miniature Show, Sidney, MT
2023 3 person show, The Big and the Small of It at Customs House Art Museum, Clarksville, TN
2023 3 person show, The Big and the Small of It at Deines Cultural Center Museum, Russell, KS
2023 3 person show WaterWorks Art Museum, Miles City, MT – The Big and the Small of It
2023 3 person show, MonDak Heritage Museum in Sidney, MT – The Big and the Small of It
2022 3 person show, The Big and Small of It at the Mansion at Strathmore, Rockville, MD, reviewed by art critic in The Washington Post!
2021 Figuratively Speaking at Salmagundi Club in NYC
2021 Abide Show at The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA.
2020 3 person show at The Arts Center at The Art Factory, Manassa, VA
2020 North X Northwest Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2020 American Women Artists at Booth Museum, Cartersville, GA
2020, 2019 April-Dec ArtScape exhibition of banners in Old Town Winchester, VA and originals at Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
SELECT CURATED GALLERY SHOWS
2024 International Guild of Realism Show at T.H. Brennan Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ
2024 Bryn Du Art Show, Granville, OH
2024 International Miniature Art Show at Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC
2024 Punta Gorda Visual Arts National Biennial, Punta Gorda, FL
2023 Salmagundi Club Thumb Box Exhibition, New York, New York
2023 Bosque Art Classic in Clifton, TX
2023 Mena Art Gallery Art of the Heartland in Mena, AR
2023 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Best of America Small Works show at Mary Williams Fine Art in Boulder, CO
2023 International Guild of Realism show at Sugarman Peterson Gallery in Santa Fe, NM
2023 3 Person show at River Valley Arts Center
2023 Two 3 Person shows at Deines Cultural Center in Russell, KS
2023 Two 3 Person shows at Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, NC
2023 3 Person show at Visual Arts Center, Punta Gorda, FL
2023 Women Artists of the West National Exhibition and Sale, Carriage Factory Art Gallery in Newton, KS
2022 Women Artists of the West National Exhibition and Sale, McBride Gallery in Annapolis, MD
2022 Long Beach Island Foundation Unmasked Exhibition, Loveladies, NJ
2022 Academic Artists 72nd Exhibition of Traditional Realism, Hartford, CT
2022 Small Works Show Southwest Artists at Mena Gallery, Mena, AR
2022 Artists Painting Stories 4 person show at Florence Thomas Art School
2022 3 Person show at Colgan Gallery in Manassas, VA
2021 International Guild of Realism Fall Salon
2021 Studio Pintura Floral Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN 2021 Artists Painting Stories 5 person show at Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC 2021 VMRC Juried Exhibition in Harrisonburg, VA 2021 Still Life Invitational at Staunton Augusta Art Center in Staunton, VA
2020 Salmagundi Club Fall Members Show, NYC
2020 Salmagundi Thumb Box Exhibition, NYC
2020 107th Annual Allied Artists of America Exhibition
2020 54th Annual Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition, Montgomery, AL
2020 National Oil Acrylic Painters Show McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD
RECENT ONLINE JURIED EXHIBITIONS
RECENT OVERSEAS EXHIBITIONS
2022 International Society of Experimental Artists Exhibition, St.
Albert Gallery in Alberta, Canada
2020 6 person show at Koshinkan in Tokyo, Japan
RECENT AWARDS
2023 1st Place, Gateway to the Rockies Miniature Show, Aurora, CO
2023 3rd Place in Art of the Heartland Show, Mena Art Gallery, Mena, AR
2023 2nd Place in the Mountainside Art Guild’s 19th Annual Miniature Show in Lakewood Arts Gallery, Lakewood, CO
2023 Finalist in the Favorite Subject competition, International Artist Magazine
2023 Presidents’ Award and also the Western Art Collector Magazine Editor’s Choice Award, Women Artists of the West National Exhibition
2022 1st Place, Small Works Winter Show at Parklane Gallery, Kirkland, WA
2022 3rd Place Historic Manassas Banner Contest, Manassas, VA
2022 1st Place, Landscapes, Sierra Artists Gallery Miniatures in Mariposa Exhibit, Mariposa, CA
2021 1st Place, Mystery, Magic and the Macabre, Deines Cultural Center, Russell, KS
2021 3rd Place Mountainside Miniatures Show, Mountainside Artists Guild
2021 Best of Show – Huron River Art Collective Summer Exhibition
2021 Honorable Mention – Virginia Mennonite Retirement Center – VMRC Exhibition, Harrisonburg, VA
2021 2nd Place, Bryn Du Mansion Art Show, Granville, OH
2021 Three pieces accepted into the US Coast Guard Permanent Collection
2021 1st Place, 3rd Place and Finalist in Historic Manassas Art Banner Contest
2021 Plein Air Finalist Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition
2020 Semi-Finalist Art Renewal Center Salon
2020 Honorable Mention Council For the Arts Chambersburg 36th Annual Exhibition of Miniature Art, Chambersburg, PA
2020 2nd Place, MonDak Heritage Center Miniature Exhibition in Sidney, MT
2020 First Place, Banner Art Contest Historic Manassas, VA
2020 Best of Show, One Love Festival, Manassas, VA
2020 Third place oils, Miniature Art Society of Florida
LATEST PODCASTS
Guest on May 11, 2023 Fine Art Studios Art Sales and Marketing Circle Live Session with Clint Watson
Guest on May 2023 Bold Brush Show with Laura Angelo Baier
RECENT FEATURES IN PUBLICATIONS
2023 Full page feature in International Artist Magazine Oct/Nov issue
2023 Full page Artist in Focus feature in Western Art Collector Magazine Oct issue
2021 Feature in Elan Magazine 2021 Feature and cover in Broadlands Living Magazine
2020 Feature in January issue of Ashburn Magazine
SIGNATURE AND JURIED MEMBERSHIPS
United States Coast Guard Artist
SouthWest Artists, Inc. at Mena Gallery
Miniature Artists of America, the highest recognition a miniature artist exhibiting in the USA can attain. There are just over 60 active members in the world today.
Salmagundi Club juried member, New York, NY
Copley Society of Art juried member, Boston, MA, also juried member of the Copley Portrait Registry
Art Renewal Center Associate Living Master
Women Artists of the West Juried Member International Guild of Realism
Elected Member Miniature Painters, Sculptors, Gravers Society of Washington, D.C.
Member of Distinction Association of Miniature Artists
Elected member Fine Art Professionals of Northern Virginia
Featured Member International Community of Miniature Art
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
2023 ”FTAS” is part of the Florence Thomas Art School permanent collection
2022 “Groovy” is at Eaton Goldsmith’s in Surrey, England
2020 ”Ring My Bell” is in a Tokyo, Japan cafe collection
2019 “The Wharf” is in Gordoun, France, in the collection at Perigord Retreats
2012 I was invited to paint a mural for Orange Walk Nazarine Preschool in Orange Walk, Belize
2011 – “Ethanol,” one of 50 paintings chosen from 1,000 for the corporate collection of Amazon Web Services offices in Herndon, VA
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
“Hot Topics” was acquired by the Yellowstone Art Museum Collection in Billings, MT
“All About the Hat” is in the WaterWorks Art Museum Permanent Collection in Miles City, MT
“Red, White and Blue” is in Customs House Museum’s permanent collection in Clarksville, TN
“Big Fish, Little Tank” is part of the permanent collection in MonDak Heritage Center Museum in Sidney, MT
“Little Black Box” is in the permanent collection at Deines Cultural Center in Russell, KS
June 2024 at Customs House Museum in Clarksville, TN
Oct 2023 at Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head, NC
WORKSHOPS TAUGHT:
River Valley Art Center in November, 2025, Russellville, AR
Albrecht-Kemper Museum in June 2024, St. Joseph, MO
Italy in September 2024, Cortona, Tuscany Region
EDUCATION
Formal education –
bachelor of science in biochemical engineering, 1983, Univ. of MI in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. and a successful career designing pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities across the world.
