Welcome

2026 will be the year of having fun with art. This is my first mixed media piece ‘a sailor’s love is as deep as the ocean’, using wood panels and vintage jewelry supplies. I’ve been working for a few years on the ability to access my creative process without thinking if it’s ‘good art’ or not; this is the first piece where I had fun.

In 2025, due to depression over the cruelty and inhumanity of the US government and its followers, I have not exhibited my work. I made only the one painting above titled ‘Lost, do you feel how I feel?’ These are very dark times, but the river of hope is still alive….even though it may run deep.

Contact: DeannaLamour@gmail.com

2024:

Artisti di Oggi e di Domani 5 ~ Artists of today and Tomorrow 5, art book by Monica Ferrarini, published and presented by Gangemi Editore International Rome, Italy. Presentation of publication 12/5.

Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha WI ~ ‘Acrylic International Biennial Exhibition 2024’ ~ 8/17-10/27. International juried gallery exhibition, Smithsonian affiliate museum. Juror: Reginald Baylor. 

Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria LA ~ ’37th September Competition’ ~ 7/2-9/28.  International juried gallery exhibition. Juror: David Butler, former director of the Knoxville Museum of Art. 

Paint the Town, Hawley PA ~ street banner finalist, large reproduction of a painting hanging in the downtown area 2024/25. Regional juried public art. Jurors: Janet Gaglione, Kate Hayes, & team.

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana CA ~ ‘Art with a Message’ ~ 7/6-8/24. National juried gallery exhibition. Juror: Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia, Los Angeles gallery and museum curator.

Allina Health Foundation & Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, Minneapolis MN ~ ‘Art of Possibilities’ 5/17-6/21. International juried online exhibition.

Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem PA ~ ‘Everything Blue’ ~ 5/3-5/30. National juried gallery exhibition.

Transmission Gallery, Oakland CA ~ ‘Pint Size 2’ ~ 4/25-6/8. National juried gallery exhibition. Jurors: gallery owners Cameron Brian, Ruth Santee.

Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling WV ~ ‘Crosscurrents 2024’ ~ 4/11-6/14. Regional juried gallery exhibition. Juror: Michael Dixon, artist and Professor of Art at Albion College.

District Arts, Frederick MD ~ ‘Dreams’ ~ 4/3-4/28. National juried gallery exhibition. Juror: Rhonda J. Smith, artist and retired Professor of Art at Shepherd University.

HMVC Gallery, New York NY ~ ‘Girl Power’ ~ 3/1-3/31. International juried virtual exhibition in the online gallery, premiered on a jumbotron screen in Times Square. Jurors: gallery owners Heini Mika, Vincent Chang.

Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC ~ ‘figure’ ~ 1/12-3/31. National juried virtual exhibition in the online gallery. Jurors: Lyndon Barrois Jr, artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University; Lizzy Lunday artist; Sheldon Scott artist and Head of Purpose at Eaton Workshop.

2019-2023:

Hazleton Art League, Hazleton PA ~ ‘Autumn Invitational’ ~ 11/2019. Regional juried inaugural exhibition for the Hayden Family Center for the Arts. 

Gallery exhibitions in Downtown York PA ~ Venture Gallery, I-ron-ic Art Boutique, Hive Artspace, Creative York, Parliament Arts, Gallery 110, Gallery@227, Marketview Arts, Makaya Foundation fundraiser, Art in Residence gala, Wellspan Health Market Street, Downtown York street banner.

30+ years of exhibiting paintings nationally and internationally; work in theater, TV, film; sing, act, & design/make jewelry/clothing; vintage/antique reseller.  AA degree in Psychology SRJC, graduated with High Honors in 2015.