Deborah Sherman is a painter living in NYC. Sherman is inspired by the emotions she feels when observing the world around her, and she reflects this through a poetic approach in her paintings. Her meditative images capture a sense of calmness in a chaotic world, Insightful portraits, colorful flowers and dreamy landscapes are some of her central motifs. Sherman's distinctive brushwork and study of light, color and gesture allow her to express her positive vision of the world in paint.

Sherman has often traveled to beautiful destinations to seek new places to inspire her work. She received a grant to fund an artist's residency at La Macina di San Cresci in Chianti, Italy. During a sabbatical year from teaching art she worked intensively at a residency in Dordogne,France. Sherman also received a Frankel grant to paint in a lighthouse retreat in Port Bickerton, Nova Scotia.

She has shown work in numerous venues in New York including m55, Bowery, Equity. Synchronicity Space and Blue Mountain. She has also exhibited in galleries in Rome and Berlin.