Her work is classically bound to the medium, beyond which there is no artifice, no illusion, only the challenge that the flat surface provides, locking herself into a very personal mission to activate it. Arriving in Miami in 1981 from New York, Deborah quickly became a force in the South Florida art community, exhibiting her work at the Gloria Luria Gallery, the C.O.C.A., among other venues, before returning to New York in 1991.