Deb Zeller

Deb Zeller began her art career at age thirteen, when she received a set of oil paints as a birthday gift.  In the ensuing years she has taken her artistic passion into creating sculptures of  unparalleled beauty.  Her artwork has been commissioned and shipped from sea (Washington D.C.) to shinning sea (California). 

As the founder and leader of Bronze Buddies, a weekly working bronze consortium, Deb hosts weekly gatherings of up to twelve fellow sculptors from the Twin City area, in her studio.  “Ideas and inspiration” abound as the artists feed off the energy that permeates the studio at these gatherings.

In July, Deb Zeller’s works were shown at the Agora Gallery, New York City where the gallery described her work as: 

 “...graceful, elegant sculptures of animals and human figures possess the inimitable qualities of timelessness, purity and integrity.  Though arrested in bronze, the human figures in her work are anything but static—playing with balance and the agility of the female figure, Zeller’s art reveals and incredible expressiveness in the human form.  Lithe as dancers, her nudes seem characters from mythology, players in the stories of goddesses and nymphs and mortal beauties.  From a simple shape wrought from bronze or alabaster, Zeller forms the base of each work into an entire world of the figures they support:  a tilting stone becomes a magnificent cliff; a pool of bronze becomes the portal to an inestimable underwater world; the polished surface of a pedestal becomes a mirror for evocative reflections.”

Deb most recently received the Award of Excellence for her “Outer Strength Inner Beauty” Bronze and Stone sculpture at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Friday September 10th, 2004.  Two of her sculptures were shown at this juried exhibition of fifty works by local artists.

by Carol Notermann