{"title":"Deanna Schuerbeke","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDeanna Schuerbeke paints what most of us feel but can't quite say. Her large-scale expressive abstracts — acrylic and oil on canvas, often at fifty or sixty inches — don't ask you to identify a subject or decode a system. They ask you to recognize something. A feeling you've had. A moment you know exactly and have never found the right words for. The experience of standing in front of one of her paintings and thinking: \u003cem\u003eyes. That's it. That's exactly what that feels like.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSchuerbeke works from her studio at NW Marine Artworks in Portland, Oregon, drawing on memories of landscape, weather, and the full emotional range of a life consciously rebuilt. She attended residencies in France and New Mexico, has exhibited throughout the Portland area — including a Second Place award at the Oregon Art Center's juried exhibition \u003cem\u003eLeaning into Abstraction\u003c\/em\u003e — and her work is held in private collections across the country and abroad. Every painting in this collection comes with the story behind it. We suggest reading that story. Then looking again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke's Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna's Artist Statement \u0026amp; Bio\"\u003eRead Deanna's Artist Statement \u0026amp; Bio\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-morgan-johnson\" title=\"Subscribe to Morgan's eNewsletter\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" width=\"68\" height=\"69\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Sign up to receive updates from Deanna!\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"unbound","title":"Unbound","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 45\" × 52\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a moment in the making of a painting when the artist stops directing it and starts listening to it. \u003ci\u003eUnbound\u003c\/i\u003e is what that moment looks like from the inside. Schuerbeke describes holding tightly to an idea, then choosing to release it — and watching something lighter and more alive rise in its place. The canvas is the record of that release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe painting operates on two simultaneous mark-making languages. The first is the field itself — overlapping passages of gold, teal, terracotta, magenta, and soft violet built from controlled back-and-forth strokes, their edges intentionally blurred, each form defined by color alone rather than any line that contains it. Shapes present but unwilling to harden into permanence. The second language runs over the top: singular, continuous linear marks in rust and black, drawn in one unbroken gesture that begins suggesting a shape — a square, an angle — and then refuses to close. The line trails off, breaks away, declines to become a boundary. Four of these marks anchor the corners of the canvas, keeping the eye contained within the field, leading it in a continuous path rather than letting it scatter or escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337979424988,"sku":null,"price":3700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1196Unbound45X52.jpg?v=1787774805"},{"product_id":"new-growth","title":"New Growth","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\" × 50\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not a quiet painting,\" Deanna Schuerbeke says of New Growth, \"but one that is filled with the joy of life.\" She tends a twenty-by-twenty-foot garden through spring and fall and describes watching it grow as something close to magic — grounding, peaceful, and perpetually astonishing. This painting is not a depiction of that garden. It is the feeling of standing inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhat stops you first is the sky — a wide, luminous field of blue-white occupying the upper half of the canvas, breathing and open where everything below is dense and layered. From that stillness the eye is drawn downward through a curved passage of pale light, a path through the middle of the composition that parts the color on either side the way a garden path parts the planting beds. Then the garden arrives: olive and hunter green in broad overlapping strokes, crimson, magenta, yellow, and cobalt built up until passages of the canvas carry genuine visual weight. At the lower edge the marks change register entirely — shorter, more directional, more individual. These are the stems. The eye catches them and follows them upward, the way the gaze moves through an actual garden, tracing one flower back to its stalk before losing it in the abundance of everything growing alongside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThat Schuerbeke achieves foreground, midground, and sky — the sensation of looking through a space rather than at a surface — in a painting that contains no literal representation of any of it is a measure of what expressive abstraction can do at full power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338027135196,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1201NewGrowth50X50.jpg?v=1787776795"},{"product_id":"reckoning","title":"Reckoning","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas, Framed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 36\" × 36\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDeanna Schuerbeke painted Reckoning during her 2025 residency in France — three weeks away from the life she had known, inside the life she had chosen. She describes it as an act of taking stock: of what she was leaving, what she was becoming, and what it felt like to stand honestly at that threshold. \"Even if emotions get loud,\" she says, \"there is still a center — one that is soft but solid.\" This painting is that center, and everything pressing against it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe eye enters through the middle. A wide, luminous field of peach and white occupies the heart of the canvas — not empty, but open. It is here that Schuerbeke locates the tender vulnerability at the core of the piece: the paint softer in application, the strokes quieter, the surface almost skin-like in its warmth. It does not announce itself. It simply holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAround it, the edges are alive. To the upper left, broad red strokes slash diagonally — urgent, large-bodied, the mark of a full arm in motion. Beside them, tangled black lines coil and dart, smaller and more agitated, the visual equivalent of unresolved details circling back. On the right, vertical passages of yellow, teal, and burgundy stand in columns — not threatening but present, insistent, leaning in. At the lower register, a deep darkness pools, and out of it a single bright blue mark curves upward like a question not yet fully formed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBut not all of it presses with doubt. The broader strokes that move in long horizontal sweeps — some gently curving, unhurried in their passage across the canvas — carry an entirely different emotional register. Their very direction speaks of ease, of breath, of a body no longer braced against something. That these marks arrive in warm ochre, soft lavender, and open teal only deepens the feeling: vibrant and alive, but without urgency. These are the thoughts that arrive with wonder. The excitement of a future still being written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eReckoning does not resolve. It holds the tension between vulnerability and possibility, between the noise at the edges and the quiet at the center, and asks you to sit with both. For anyone who has ever stood at the threshold of a life they chose on purpose, this painting will feel like recognition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338030215388,"sku":null,"price":2200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1208Reckoning36X36.jpg?v=1787776958"},{"product_id":"confluence","title":"Confluence","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas (unstretched — can be stretched to order)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\" × 60\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Sometimes everything starts to rush at you,\" Deanna Schuerbeke says of Confluence, \"and there is not much you can do but let it happen.\" She painted this during her 2025 residency in France, digging deep — for what she says was not the first time — to trust that things would resolve in their own time. At sixty inches square, this painting does not ask you to observe from a safe distance. It asks you to stand inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe first thing that stops you is not the color — though the color is everywhere, and it is everything. It is the drips. In the upper left, black paint was applied so fluidly that it ran, leaving long vertical trails descending the canvas, unchecked, unedited. The eye follows them down instinctively, then searches — almost anxiously — for their counterpart. The right side offers nothing. The disequilibrium holds until the gaze drops to the lower center and finds them again, balance restored in a place you did not expect. That small experience of disequilibrium followed by unexpected resolution is not accidental. It is the painting's argument made physical. Look closer still and the raw canvas reveals itself — no preparatory wash, no built-up ground. Unprepared. Unprotected. The brushstrokes tunnel directly into each other, each mark placed over the one beneath it without the safety net of accumulated layers. You feel it in your body before you can name it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAnd yet the upper right holds: warm yellow, blush pink, cream pressing through the turbulence with quiet insistence. The chaos does not win. Confluence earns its resolution honestly — arriving, as Deanna says, in its own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338033557724,"sku":null,"price":5700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1208Reckoning36X36.jpg?v=1787776958"},{"product_id":"taking-flight","title":"Taking Flight","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaking Flight\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\" × 50\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeanna Schuerbeke was looking out over the summer sky from her studio in France when this painting arrived. \u003ci\u003e\"I just felt so light,\"\u003c\/i\u003e she says, \u003ci\u003e\"and felt like my life as an artist was really starting to take off.\"\u003c\/i\u003e The painting glows in response — a warm ground of peach, cream, and blush fills the canvas with the quality of late afternoon light, and against it curved strokes of coral, orange, and red lift and arc in short upward gestures: the visual rhythm of a flock rising, wings catching air, the collective decision to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBut look closer at what is woven among those warm strokes: pure white. Not blended, not softened — applied boldly in the same curved horizontal gesture as the colors surrounding it, yet entirely itself. It is the lightest note in the palette and paradoxically the most grounded one. Where the corals and pinks suggest feeling, the white declares it. It does not float. It asserts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThis is what separates \u003ci\u003eTaking Flight\u003c\/i\u003e from a painting merely about lightness. Those white strokes are confidence — the steady note beneath the exhilaration, the quiet knowledge that what is happening is real. This is not the giddy feeling of a wish. This is the specific, grounded joy of something actually coming true.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338037752028,"sku":null,"price":4800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1218TakingFlight60X50.jpg?v=1787777316"},{"product_id":"drift","title":"Drift","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\" × 48\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Everything is still moving, or maybe even floating,\"\u003c\/i\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke says of \u003ci\u003eDrift\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\"but at a nice, unhurried pace.\"\u003c\/i\u003e She describes this as a rare state for her — the deliberate intention to slow down, be present, be light — and the painting carries that quality so completely that it changes the way you move through it. This is not a painting you enter from the top. The eye settles at the bottom first, drawn by the soft pooling of cream and sage at the lower edge, then rises slowly — unhurried, exactly as she intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhat the eye finds as it moves upward is a canvas that refuses to resolve. A line begins and dissolves into nothing. A passage of warm coral softens at its edges until it becomes indistinguishable from the peach ground beneath it. Loose floral suggestions — the gold loop at the upper left, the green and teal curves at center — hint at form without committing to it. At the top edge, brushstrokes lead the eye clean off the canvas, releasing it softly into open air rather than returning it inward. There are no anchors here, no corner marks holding the composition contained. Everything is permitted to drift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThe palette does the same work as the mark-making: cream, blush, soft teal, and muted sage — colors that lean toward each other rather than insisting on their own separateness. Even the moments of higher intensity, the red at upper left, the yellow at center right, arrive softened, as if seen through gauze. \u003ci\u003eDrift\u003c\/i\u003e is the quietest painting in Deanna Schuerbeke's studio. It is also, in its own unhurried way, one of the most complete.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338040864988,"sku":null,"price":3700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1240Drift48X48.jpg?v=1787777469"},{"product_id":"searching","title":"Searching","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\" × 40\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSearching\u003c\/i\u003e took Second Place at the Oregon Art Center's juried exhibition \u003ci\u003eLeaning into Abstraction\u003c\/i\u003e in July 2026 — and standing in front of it, you understand why immediately. Schuerbeke describes waking in the night with the feeling of having lost something, not knowing what, not knowing where to begin. \u003ci\u003e\"Color is pulled in every direction at once,\"\u003c\/i\u003e she says, \u003ci\u003e\"with red scribbles cutting through.\"\u003c\/i\u003e The painting does not illustrate that feeling. It reproduces it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhat stops you is the technical restlessness. This is a canvas that cannot settle on a single mark-making language — and that inability to settle is the point. Broad black strokes sweep vertically with full-arm authority. Red lines scribble across the surface in a gesture more crayon than brush, urgent and slightly frantic. Dry-brushed brown passages reveal every individual hair of the brush, delicate and searching in their own right. Bold green blocks assert themselves alongside soft gray passages that barely arrive before dissolving. No single technique dominates. The hand itself is searching — moving through method after method the way the mind moves through possibilities at 3am, trying each one, committing to none.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAnd yet the painting holds. The reds and blacks — scattered across the canvas in every register and scale — function as anchors, returning the eye to itself each time it begins to feel lost. The composition does not resolve, but it does not unravel either. \u003ci\u003eSearching\u003c\/i\u003e captures something precise and rarely named: the state of looking for something you cannot yet identify, fully awake but not afraid, driven but not frantic. You are searching. But you are not lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338046468316,"sku":null,"price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1245Searching40X40.jpg?v=1787777785"},{"product_id":"coming-down","title":"Coming Down","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\" × 40\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eComing Down\u003c\/i\u003e belongs to Schuerbeke's Childhood Memories of Place series — work drawn from the most formative textures of growing up on the Canadian prairies. Her family was often flooded out of their home. She describes the aftermath as \u003ci\u003e\"both exciting and horrific\"\u003c\/i\u003e — and then, after everything, the particular quality of silence that follows something big. This painting lives in that aftermath. Not in the disaster. In the coming down from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe eye enters through two diagonal swaths of deep navy — bold, directional, descending like a staircase from upper right to lower left — and is immediately pulled downward. There is no resisting the movement. Against a warm peach ground, three passages of rust and red punctuate the vertical axis of the canvas: the events themselves, vivid and full-bodied, each one shadowed and connected by those contrasting navy sweeps that usher the eye past them and onward, always downward, always settling. The complementary tension between rust and teal is not conflict here. It is resolution in motion — two forces that have exhausted their opposition and are learning, slowly, to occupy the same space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThe warmth of this painting is its most important quality and the one that arrives before analysis. The peach ground holds everything — the excitement, the horror, the navy descent — in a light that feels like late afternoon after the water has receded. \u003ci\u003e\"Rust and teal settle into each other after a lot of movement,\"\u003c\/i\u003e Schuerbeke says. The eye exits the canvas at the lower right, grounded, quieted, exactly as she intended. Coming down is not falling. It is arriving.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338053120220,"sku":null,"price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1246ComingDown60X40.jpg?v=1787778026"},{"product_id":"blossoming","title":"Blossoming","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\" × 40\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeanna Schuerbeke painted \u003ci\u003eBlossoming\u003c\/i\u003e on a bright spring day in Oregon — rhododendrons in bloom, the trees carrying that particular electric green that only arrives for a few weeks each year. \u003ci\u003e\"The feeling you get,\"\u003c\/i\u003e she says, \u003ci\u003e\"when good things begin to reveal themselves, and the world feels light, and anything seems possible.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Of all her paintings, this one most completely abandons the primary palette she typically works in. There is no red here, no bold yellow, no assertive cobalt. Instead: pinks, lavender, mellow chartreuse, soft sage, the particular blue-green of new leaves in filtered light. The palette itself is the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhat the eye does in this painting is unlike anything in Schuerbeke's studio. It circles. Soft aqua and teal brushstrokes in the center pull the gaze into a gentle spiral — and as it follows those curves, something extraordinary happens: the motion resolves first into the shape of a single petal, then expands outward until the entire canvas reads as a single blossom seen from directly above, the dark passages of the upper left receding as soft shadow beneath the petals rather than asserting as bold accent. The black is present but buried — a lower layer that gives the softer colors something to glow against without competing for attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eBlossoming\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e is the gentlest painting in Deanna Schuerbeke's body of work, and the most quietly joyful. It does not announce itself. It opens — gradually, in spirals, the way a flower does — and by the time you realize what has happened, you are already inside it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338057707740,"sku":null,"price":3400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1247Blossoming48X40.jpg?v=1787778246"},{"product_id":"gravity","title":"Gravity","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Board\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\" × 40\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGravity\u003c\/i\u003e is Deanna Schuerbeke's ode to Joan Mitchell — the Abstract Expressionist painter whose sweeping, color-saturated canvases defined what emotional weight could look like when translated directly into paint. Schuerbeke is quick to note that her work looks nothing like Mitchell's. But the impulse is the same: to let color carry feeling without explanation, to trust that heaviness has its own visual logic. Here, that logic is gravity itself — the deep blue and red masses that pull everything toward the bottom of the canvas, the chaos that arrives with that kind of weight, and the surprising resolution that comes from accepting it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe eye enters at the top and is immediately anchored. A large mass of teal dominates the upper left, its edges held in place by black strokes that tether it to the canvas like ballast. That mass is then echoed in a smaller patch of navy at center — which deposits the eye directly into a field of open white and soft yellow at the lower register, equal in scale to the teal above it. Heavy on top, atmospheric below. The pull is inevitable and the word for it is already in the title. Around this central axis, every element finds its diagonal counterpart: the bold red sweep of the upper right answered by a scribbled red passage at lower right; warm coral masses migrating downward and lightening in application as they descend; a violet note in the upper left balanced by a softer echo near the lower center. The canvas is a system of tethered weights, each one pulling and being pulled in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThe feeling is not oppression. It is groundedness — something as natural, as constant, and ultimately as reassuring as gravity itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338059444444,"sku":null,"price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1248Gravity40X40AcryliconBoard26.jpg?v=1787778534"},{"product_id":"beneath","title":"Beneath","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\" × 36\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeanna Schuerbeke grew up in a small rural town in Canada, and the woods were her refuge. \u003ci\u003e\"The chaotic lines and strokes of the wild,\"\u003c\/i\u003e she says, \u003ci\u003e\"make me feel like I am back in my safe space.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBeneath\u003c\/i\u003e is that memory translated into paint — layers of green and burgundy foliage pressing in from every edge, yellow breaking through in warm bursts where light finds a gap, blue sky glimpsed in fragments above the canopy. At sixty by thirty-six inches in portrait orientation, the canvas is tall the way a forest is tall — you are looking up through it as much as into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhat makes this painting different from the rest of Schuerbeke's work is its surface. Where her other canvases build depth through accumulated layers, \u003ci\u003eBeneath\u003c\/i\u003e is intentionally light in application — dry-brushed passages where the canvas breathes through, pale washes laid over dried drips that were deliberately left and then gently covered, the whole surface carrying the quality of filtered light rather than concentrated color. This is not a painting about weight. It is a painting about atmosphere — the specific luminosity of being under a green canopy on a bright day, where light arrives softened and scattered rather than direct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe cream and white center is the path through. The eye finds it naturally, drawn by the lightest value in the composition, and reads it as the opening in the trees — the place where the canopy parts and the sun comes through. Everything presses in from the edges, lush and slightly wild, exactly as a forest does. \u003ci\u003eBeneath\u003c\/i\u003e is the feeling of being held by something larger than yourself, sheltered rather than enclosed, the chaos of the wild arranged, as it always is in nature, into something that turns out to be safe.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338065375452,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1250Beneath60X36.jpg?v=1787778873"},{"product_id":"out-there","title":"Out There","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas (unstretched — can be stretched to order)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\" × 48\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I often have this feeling that something big is coming,\"\u003c\/i\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke says, \u003ci\u003e\"but when, and what?\"\u003c\/i\u003e She describes the storm-dark purples and blacks as excitement rather than dread, the orange breaking along the horizon as the signal that whatever is approaching will not be subtle. \u003ci\u003eOut There\u003c\/i\u003e is the moment just before. The held breath. The particular quality of air when the atmosphere is reorganizing itself around something enormous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe painting has depth — real, built-up, layered depth — and you feel it immediately. Dark passages of black and purple sit beneath warm washes of rust and brown that bleed into them like wet into wet, the colors not so much layered as interpenetrated, the way rain already in the air changes the color of everything before it arrives. Linear marks whip across the upper register — not anchoring the composition but moving through it, insinuating wind, the sense of being surrounded by the storm rather than watching it from a safe distance. Then the eye catches the yellow-green passages at the upper right and something clicks into place: that specific color the sky turns when storm clouds filter the light, the color that means lightning before lightning comes. The barometer is dropping. You can feel it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA single vertical line of pure gold descends the right edge of the canvas — unhurried, deliberate, the one still note in a painting otherwise entirely in motion. It is the eye of what is coming. \u003ci\u003eOut There\u003c\/i\u003e does not resolve, because the storm hasn't broken yet. You cannot look away. You might miss the show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338069799132,"sku":null,"price":3700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1251OutThere48X48.jpg?v=1787779122"},{"product_id":"enough","title":"Enough","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas (unstretched — can be stretched to order)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\" × 48\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"No reaching, not wanting,\"\u003c\/i\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke says of \u003ci\u003eEnough\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003e\"Just this, and it's plenty.\"\u003c\/i\u003e She describes it as a reminder she returns to again and again — the quieter, more contemplative counterpart to her more turbulent work. Where her other paintings surge and press and search, this one simply settles. Walking into it feels like walking into a warm, muted hug.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe technical choices are the emotional argument. Creams and soft peaches are washed and melded together in light, translucent layers that build a ground of extraordinary fullness — not empty, not sparse, but quietly complete. Beneath those washes, excitement does exist: ochre and yellow passages, swirling individual brushstrokes, pops of green and coral that carry real energy. But they sit \u003ci\u003eunder\u003c\/i\u003e the pale washes rather than on top of them, present but softened, the way ambient sound softens inside a warm room. A diagonal of lighter value crosses the canvas from upper left to lower right — dynamic, suggesting movement — but the movement feels external, happening somewhere beyond the self rather than within it. The dark mass at the right edge anchors without threatening, grounding the composition the way a closed door grounds a quiet room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnough\u003c\/i\u003e does not ask you to feel anything in particular. It simply surrounds you in a moment of contentment and holds you there — activity swirling at the edges, peace at the center — until you remember that this, exactly this, is plenty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338081038556,"sku":null,"price":3700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1252Enough48X48.jpg?v=1787779291"},{"product_id":"secret-paths","title":"Secret Paths","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\" × 40\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeanna Schuerbeke hikes to think. \u003ci\u003e\"This is what I like to do to clear my head and feel like myself,\"\u003c\/i\u003e she says — warm colors winding through the canvas like the many trails she has walked on summer evenings, no particular destination, no solution required. \u003ci\u003eSecret Paths\u003c\/i\u003e is that walk translated directly into paint: the color, the wandering, the particular quality of mind that arrives only when the body is moving through something larger than itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe eye finds the path immediately — individual meandering brushstrokes in burgundy, rust, and warm coral that begin at the center of the canvas and wind diagonally upward toward the upper right, gradual and unhurried, the way a trail climbs a gentle slope rather than a steep one. These lines are doing two things at once: they are the physical path underfoot and the wandering thoughts that accompany it, both moving in the same direction, neither in any particular hurry. The left side of the canvas opens into a field of soft gray — not the rawness of uncovered canvas but something warmer and more intentional, a breathing space, a place where the mind can rest without needing to land anywhere. Surrounding it all, the color presses in: olive, teal, magenta, cobalt, deep burgundy — the saturated world of a summer landscape seen peripherally when the mind has finally let go of its agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eSecret Paths\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e does not resolve into anything more specific than this: the quiet that arrives when you stop looking for it. The peace that turns out to have been there the whole time, waiting along the trail.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338086609116,"sku":null,"price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1253SecretPaths40X40.jpg?v=1787779551"},{"product_id":"temperance","title":"Temperance","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 56\" × 40\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePainted in Santa Fe, \u003ci\u003eTemperance\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Deanna Schuerbeke's most personally revealing works. She describes thinking about the difficulty of managing emotion — the active, ongoing effort of restraint, of choosing not to follow anxiety and fear into the dark. \u003ci\u003e\"The warm peach and blush hold steady,\"\u003c\/i\u003e she says, \u003ci\u003e\"against a dark line of green, blue, and maroon at the top — doing your best to hold fast.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Temperance, by definition, is moderation in action, thought, and feeling. This painting is what that looks like from the inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe canvas is top-heavy with darkness — a dense band of teal, black, and deep maroon pressing down from above. But the burgundy at its lower edge softens as it descends, bleeding gradually into the warm peach and blush that hold the center and lower register of the composition. These are the colors Schuerbeke returns to across her body of work when she is painting well-being — and here they are not passive. They hold. In the middle of that warm field, a dark circular rush of marks interrupts — contained, brief, self-enclosed. The darkness makes a second appearance, but it does not expand. It is acknowledged and then surrounded by the warmth on every side. At the bottom of the canvas, small passages of bright sky blue appear — not announced, not emphasized, simply present. Hope that has been allowed to exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTemperance\u003c\/i\u003e asks something of the person standing in front of it. Schuerbeke has exposed her own practice of choosing light over darkness — not by denying the darkness exists, but by refusing to let it define the composition. The question the painting poses is a simple and searching one: when the darkness presses in on you, which color do you choose to hold?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338091589852,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1254Temperance56X40.jpg?v=1787779704"},{"product_id":"slow-burn","title":"Slow Burn","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 36\" × 44\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeanna Schuerbeke painted \u003ci\u003eSlow Burn\u003c\/i\u003e in Santa Fe, under the influence of New Mexico's landscape — its deep reds and maroons, its sage green against ochre earth, its heat that sits in the air without breaking into flame. \u003ci\u003e\"It's like a heat that hasn't broken into flame yet,\"\u003c\/i\u003e she says — a metaphor for wanting something and choosing, deliberately, not to rush toward it. Letting it come in its own time. There is a word for that. The title is it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe painting arrives the way its subject does — with warmth and urgency in equal measure. The colors are full-bodied and saturated, burgundy and crimson and deep pink mulled and melded together with the richness of something steeped rather than poured, the paint smudged and blended until each passage carries genuine depth. A diagonal line of warm ochre pulls the eye from the lower left upward into that dense, smoldering upper register — and for a moment the pull feels irresistible, the momentum building toward something. Then the white lines appear: thin, delicate marks drawn across the surface, paint scraped back rather than added, the gesture of subtraction in a canvas otherwise built entirely on accumulation. They are the restraint made visible. The pause before the decision. \u003ci\u003eNot yet.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBelow, a wide field of cream and peach opens the lower register — warm but unhurried, breathing, the visual equivalent of patience held without strain. \u003ci\u003eSlow Burn\u003c\/i\u003e is exactly what its title promises: the particular heat of wanting something fully while choosing to let it arrive on its own terms. It is, in the very best sense, irresistible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338093981916,"sku":null,"price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1255SlowBurn36X46.jpg?v=1787779883"},{"product_id":"all-at-once","title":"All At Once","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e To be confirmed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Life has a way of bunching things,\"\u003c\/i\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke says of \u003ci\u003eAll at Once\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\"which can feel overwhelming if you let it.\"\u003c\/i\u003e She painted this in Santa Fe, working through a canvas caught mid-shift — warm orange and gold rising out of cool teal and brown, temperatures colliding, nothing waiting its turn. The whole surface is in transition. \u003ci\u003eEverything arriving together.\u003c\/i\u003e The painting does not describe that feeling. It reproduces the pace of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe urgency is in the marks themselves. Brushstrokes are loaded with paint and thrown onto the canvas, each one losing pigment mid-gesture — you can see it happen, the stroke beginning full and ending in the splayed individual bristles of a brush moving faster than it can be refilled. Is that stroke finished? Is it corrected? No. The hand has already moved on. Paint applied wet-on-wet piles impression upon impression, each one barely set before the next arrives. Where the paint runs unchecked down the canvas it is left exactly as it fell — not because Schuerbeke didn't notice, but because stopping to correct it would mean slowing down, and slowing down is not what this painting is about. The layers accumulate with an impatience you can feel in your own body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThis is what it looks like when everything arrives at once — not chaos exactly, but compression. The warm and the cool, the urgent and the unfinished, the impression barely made before another one is thrown over it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338101321948,"sku":null,"price":3700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1256AllatOnce_d14d03c4-6e6e-4e8b-8ef1-377cd90e7947.jpg?v=1787780321"},{"product_id":"caught-up","title":"Caught Up","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\" × 32\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I tend to get caught up in so many unnecessary things,\"\u003c\/i\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke says, \u003ci\u003e\"that can easily take over my peace of mind — such a constant battle to resist.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Painted in Santa Fe, \u003ci\u003eCaught Up\u003c\/i\u003e maps that battle with uncomfortable precision. Orange pushes hard against tangles of teal, brown, black, and blue — the canvas a portrait of a mind that knows exactly where its peace is and watches it being crowded out in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe peace is visible. At the top of the canvas, a patch of soft peach and blush — the colors Schuerbeke returns to consistently across her work when painting well-being — sits quietly above the tangle below. But look closely at how it is painted: translucent, thinly applied, the pigment so diluted it seems almost fragile, as though one more wash of color could dissolve it entirely. This is not peace as a solid thing. It is peace as something that requires constant, active tending to survive. Encroaching around it from every direction, the other strokes arrive loaded with pigment — substantial, overlapping, each one dragging traces of adjacent wet color along with it as it moves. They do not blur into each other and disappear. They hold their ground. Each one insists on its own space within the composition, the way unwanted thoughts insist on their own space within the mind — influenced by each other, tangled together, but refusing to dissolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaught Up\u003c\/i\u003e does not resolve into peace. It resolves into the honest, ongoing effort of choosing it — again, and again, against everything that is pressing in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338112004316,"sku":null,"price":3200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1257CaughtUp50X36.jpg?v=1787780676"},{"product_id":"finally","title":"Finally","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 56\" × 48\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Painting this was extremely cathartic,\"\u003c\/i\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke says of \u003ci\u003eFinally\u003c\/i\u003e. She chose her favorite colors — teal, orange, gold — and drew from raw energy, describing the result as \u003ci\u003e\"a big and welcoming storm — the kind of relief that only comes after something builds and arrives.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Of all the paintings in her Santa Fe series, this is the one that exhales. You feel it the moment you look at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe palette is deliberately limited — three colors, bold and unambiguous, working together without complication. Teal rolls and sweeps across the canvas in broad, saturated strokes, dense and full-bodied at the top and center, running in thin drips toward the bottom edge as the energy spends itself, the residual showers after the storm has passed. Against it, pure white opens space — not absence but relief, the canvas breathing where the color releases it. And then the gold and orange arrive — not breaking through the teal from behind like light through clouds, but laid on top, applied afterwards. This is the formal detail that unlocks the painting entirely: the sunshine did not precede the storm. It came after. The warmth was not there waiting — it was earned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinally\u003c\/i\u003e is exactly what its title says. Not the anticipation of something, not the endurance of something, but the arrival on the other side of it — the moment when the work is done, the storm has cleared, and what remains is warmth, color, and the deep, uncomplicated satisfaction of having come through. The satisfied sigh. The self-pat on the back. The painting that knows it has earned its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338118983900,"sku":null,"price":4200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1258Finally56X48.jpg?v=1787780948"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/collections\/1245_Searching_40X40_3c9120c7-090a-42d2-9d9f-2b231e6f8155.jpg?v=1787774245","url":"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/collections\/deanna-schuerbeke.oembed","provider":"nicartgallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}