Debbie Kupinsky

Debbie Kupinsky was born in Los Angeles California. She earned a BA in English from Syracuse University in 1989 and later received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1999 and her MFA from Louisiana State University in 2002. Her work explores the interaction between the figure and metaphorical landscape as well as the role of layered images in creating open-ended narratives. Anthropomorphic forms and figures imply a world where the natural and man-made blend and blur.

She has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in 2009 and 2012, as well as an artist in residence at The Appalachian Centner for Crafts in Smithville, TN in 2003.  In 2013 she completed a collaborative residency with artist, Craig Clifford in Alpena, MI. She has also received an Individual Artist Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission in 2009.. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Long Beach Museum of Art and The Archie Bray Foundation She has been included in exhibitions at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art  in Madison, WI, the Clay Studio of Philadelphia and the Red Lodge Clay Center.