Deborah Sudran

Prominent in the collections of Smith Barney, Lehman Brothers, Xerox and Exxon, R. H. Macy, IBM, Tupperware, Dean Witter and AT&T, Deborah Sudran's exquisite paintings have enjoyed success from her Kansas City Art Institute and University of Michigan days until her present studio in New York City.

"My paintings express a strong emotional response to nature, and my fascination with its varied patterns and colors. Each painting moves in close to a particular image and isolates it from its surroundings so that a horizon line is not seen," she writes.

Noted for her use of arresting color combinations, natural and real but with just that magical bit of "too-muchness," Ms. Sudran's work is instantly recognizable, finds itself at home in most any ambience and supplies a "fresh air" quality into any room where it is placed.

Though apparently tropical, the paintings bridge gaps of time, place or region and create their own world as an instantly happy place.

Each Sudran painting bears the unmistakable mark of its creator. That owners of her works return for additional canvases with a certain regularity speaks loudly and clearly for the "live with" qualities of this extraordinary painter of otherwise ordinary subjects.