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DEBORAH KELLER-RIHN (San Antonio, TX)
The Evolution Of A Feminine Mythology
Curated by James Joffe
St. Mary’s University – Louis J. Blume Library Art Gallery
One Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228
(210) 436-3441 | bstjohn@stmarytx.edu | jjoffe@stmarytx.edu | https://stmarytx.edu

This photography exhibit examines the development of feminine imagery in Deborah Keller-Rihn’s photographs from 2000-2024. Examples from various bodies of work such as Symbolic Transformations, the 21 Aspects of Tara, Namaste, the Lovely Kolam, and Traces of Perception to works in later shows such as Glimpses of Eternity and Lone Star Reverie show how the artist’s ideas have developed as well her experimental approach to photography and photographic presentation. Keller-Rihn’s work conveys a search for the Divine Feminine and the integration of the worldly and the transcendent. Indeed, the spiritual manifests in matter as the artist demonstrates how beauty can transform consciousness and enlighten a divided world. 

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Deborah Keller-Rihn is an artist, teacher, curator, mentor, arts organizer, and cultural innovator who sees art as a spiritual practice and values creativity as a powerful tool for personal healing and cultural transformation. Deborah Keller-Rihn is a multi-talented artist whose primary medium is photography. She usually hand-colors her photographs and enjoys experimenting with different photographic techniques and innovative ways to present her work.

Deborah has been working in the arts for over thirty years and has helped to shape the cultural landscape of San Antonio through her work as a fine arts facilitator in Edgewood School District, assistant curator of education at the San Antonio Museum of Art, program director at Bihl Haus Arts, arts program manager at Centro Cultural Aztlan, and as an independent curator and organizer. 

She has worked as a teacher at every level, from elementary to college, teaching art, photography, humanities, reading, and English. She is the director of the Blue Star Arts Collective in the Upstairs Studios at the Blue Star Arts Complex, where she has been having monthly openings for almost thirty years. Deborah’s studio practice has been central to all her endeavors in the arts, and she is committed to creating art and developing the arts community.

Deborah has a BA in Humanities, where she graduated magna cum laude with honors, all-level teaching credentials in Art from UT Austin, and a master’s degree in art from Texas A & M Kingsville. Deborah has made four trips to India and plans to return soon to continue her studies at the Sri Aurobindo Center of Advanced Research in Pondicherry and create new works of art centered on the idea of the feminine divine.

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Deborah Keller-Rihn
The Evolution Of A Feminine Mythology
St. Mary’s University Exhibition Catalog
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