Debra Hampton was born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. She holds a B.A. in Art History from California State University and an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University with a certficate in Museum Studies. She is represented by Priska Juschka Fine Art in New York and maintains a studio in Long Island City.

Her current body of work explores the complex and changing boundaries of beauty, desire and identity by appropriating images from fashion and lifestyle advertising juxtaposed with traditional and contemporary emblems of success and power. Blurring the lines between the consumer and the consumed, the portraits represent our challenge in navigating a world which increasingly values material gain and the shifting definition of survival in that context. The work is made by meticulously cutting out hundreds of pieces of magazine advertisements then recombining them together on top of ink splatters and intricate drawing.

Ms. Hampton has been recipient of the Chashama AREA Studio Residency and an A.I.R. Gallery fellowship. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art Permanent Drawing Collection, The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, and has been included in publications such as ArtReview (London), The New York Times, Queens Chronical, Etapes Graphiques (France), and The New York Art World.

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