Debbie Carfagno has been painting since 1975 and has developed repute as both an instructor in printmaking at New York’s School of Visual Arts and as master seriographer at Rupert Smith’s printmaking facility from 1977- 1983 where she produced works on canvas and paper for artist Andy Warhol. She received her BFA from SVA in 1976 and worked for various other printmaking facilities and artists before devoting her energies to Warhol.

Relocating to New Hope Pennsylvania in 1983, she operated Now Voyager Gallery for the next 11 years, showing both local Bucks County artists, and established artists from New York while continuing to paint and raise four children.

Upon selling the gallery and moving to Miami in 1994, she has been developing her own vision full time. In 1998 she began to develop a new medium involving oil painting on aluminum. Starting with a precise line drawing, the shapes are cut out by water jet. After bending and fabrication, these pieces become a unique sculptural and multiple art form.Within these “multiple originals” some times a shape is repeated but always within a new format and an original painting . The fabrication process includes shearing, grinding, hand bending and welding. Some become multi layer wall pieces, others free standing sculptures.

Carfagno is an observer of art and nature, which has always been the primary inspiration for her work. She balances abstraction and realism through attention to the relationships between positive and negative shapes. Converting the pencil drawings to the edge of aluminum stirs a dialogue between medium and content. The images are reduced to their essence. This symmetry between exactitude and chance provides endless possibilities as she continues to expand her vision into bronze, finishing these pieces with unusual patinas.