Deborah Peeples (b. Brooklyn, NY) is a Boston area painter who exhibits her work nationally. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University School of Fine Arts and also studied at the Lake Placid School of Art. She returned to a full-time art practice after raising her family and working for many years as a community, social, and political activist. Peeples has been an active member of The Crit Lab, Yellow Chair Salon, New England Wax, Pell Lucy, and is Board President of the Cambridge Art Association.
Her work has been exhibited across New England including at 13Forest Gallery, Fountain Street Gallery, New Bedford Art Museum, Kobalt Gallery, Danforth Art Museum, Bristol Art Museum (RI), and Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum (VT). She has also exhibited at Atlantic Gallery (NY), MAPSpace (NY), and the Chaffey Community Museum of Art (CA). Her work can be found in collections across the US and abroad.
Peeples lives in Cambridge and works in her studio at Joy Street Studios in Somerville.