Debra Baxter Wanting is Easier Than Having

July 7 to August 6, 2024

LINK TO IMAGES FROM THE EXHIBITION

Platform is pleased to present Wanting is Easier Than Having, an exhibition of Debra Baxter’s most recent body of work. While much of Debra’s past work has explored the many aspects of longing, her newest work asserts that wanting is easier than having. Longing can become strangely comfortable, but it is the having or joining where a new level of awkwardness arises. Her work is about finding strength in the uncomfortable moments and addressing the dichotomy of simultaneous success and failure, while also exploring her continued passion for rocks and minerals.
 
The book, Wanting is Easier Than Having, published by Publication Studio (Portland, OR) will debut at her opening July 7. The book contains images Baxter’s work, process, and poems by writers who were asked to write about the space between wanting and having. Writers include Dorothy Abertini, Lisette Austin, Sandra Beasley, Rachel Kessler, Sierra Nelson, Adriana Grant. and essay by Sara Krajewski.

Debra has had solo exhibitions in Seattle with Howard House, Soil, and Gallery 4Culture, as well as in New York with Massimo Audiello Gallery. She was recently part of a three-person show at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada (Reno NV), and will have work in a group show at SOME/THINGS Gallery in Paris in the fall. She holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA from Bard College, Milton Avery School of the Arts. She was a finalist for the 2011 Brink Award.

Image: You have to believe we are magic (barf bag), 2010, Ceramic, mirror, lab grown bismuth (Germany) 17 x 24 x 6 inches