Debra Keirce [NRA 2018]

First name: Debra ;
Middle name:  ;
Last name: Keirce ;

Member: Non-resident artist member ; 
Begin: 2018 ;
End: n/a ;

Biography:

Originally from Detroit, Debra Keirce is an accomplished artist in contemporary realism. In her Northern Virginia studios, she paints in oils up to four feet tall, with a specialty in true miniature pieces as small as your palm.

Debra has earned several honors in acclaimed art circles. She is proud to be a US coast guard artist, and winner of the 2022 George Gray award. She is the recipient of a rare artist residency at sea with crew on the U.S. National Security Cutter Stone. Also, eleven of her paintings were commissioned and are hanging prominently in the newly remodeled Boston Langham 5 star hotel. Debra is an Art Renewal Center Living Master, (ARCLM) and holds signature memberships in the National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society, American Women Artists, Southwest Artists, and Miniature Artists of America.

She is also a juried member of several societies, including Copley Society of Art (as well as their juried portrait registry,) Salmagundi Club, International Guild of Realism, Women Artists of the West, and American Artists Professional League.

Awards include editor’s choice AND president’s award in the Women Artists of the West National Exhibition, and first place in the Miniature Painters Sculptors Gravers Society in Maryland. She took 3rd place in the 2023 Mena Gallery Heartland exhibition. Debra won 2nd Place in the Bryn Du Mansion Art Show in Ohio. She was awarded a purchase prize and her art is on a wine label at Tongue River Winery in Montana.

Debra had a career as a biochemical design engineer in the 1980’s and 1990’s. She has studied with many instructors and programs over the years, but is currently working through the Ani Art Academies curriculum that was created by trompe l’oeil painter Anthony Waichulis. In 2010 she turned her passion for the visual arts into a full time career.

Traditional artworks are the foundation for Keirce’s art business. But, she embraces the vintage and surreal in paintings she calls “a little bit quirky.” Debra Keirce is quoted saying “I am a collector of fun art experiences.”

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