Deborah Salt

Deborah Salt’s geometric abstract paintings engage light, color, and environment. At once vibrant and monochrome, they activate surrounding space through their tilted hang, and the colored glow cast by their brightly painted edges.

Minimal and playful, hard and soft, Salt’s geometric abstraction offers a rich and subtle painting experience.

Born in Los Angeles to screenwriter Waldo Salt and actress Mary Davenport, Deborah Salt got her start in New York, where the family moved to escape Hollywood McCarthyism when she was a young child. As a teenager Salt took classes at The Arts Students League and attended The High School of Music and Art in Harlem. She studied at the School of Visual Arts, and in the 1970s found inspiration and mentorship from artists and thinkers, including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Jonathan Borofsky, Steve Reich and Marcia Tucker in New York’s active Soho scene. In 1978, she began a life-long study of Tibetan Buddhism, contributing to an increasingly essential vision in her work over the past twenty years. After a peripatetic period, Salt moved to Los Angeles in 2003, where she continues to live and work today. She has exhibited since the mid-70s in New York, Los Angeles and internationally.