Welcome to DeborahSalt.com…

My website is currently under construction, but I wanted to share a few important things here—including a seven-minute video titled Vertical Axis, directed by Eric Minh Swenson. It captures me in my studio in 2023, speaking about my work.

I have always been obsessed with rectangles, squares, and angles—with how they feel to experience. My practice revolves around proportion: organizing and reorganizing squares and rectangles until everything finds its “right” place, a point of equilibrium that feels both precise and alive. I would call that prsence. I feel geometry is a language through which almost anything can be said—emotion, balance, tension, and stillness all expressed through measured form and light.

I am also including my résumé and a detailed chronology, tracing the progression of my work and exhibitions—and my movements throughout my life—from the 1970s to the present. Together, they form a kind of map: a record of how time, place, and progression of ideas, has shaped an artistic practice.

DEBORAH SALT : VERTICAL AXIS
A film by Eric Minh Swenson