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Deborah Buck is first and foremost an artist. As a painter, she is fearless in creating images that seek to ask questions of the viewer . Buck grew up on a farm in Maryland where her urbane parents had relocated the family from New York. Growing up on the farm challenged the young artist to use her imagination to entertain herself. “As a kid, I spent a lot of time by myself reading fairy tales and ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ and I just really wished that the frog on the edge of the pond would talk, or he’d wear a crown, or I could walk outside and see something like a huge pink caterpillar, and that she could talk. I paint these characters now because I still wish that they existed and so, I bring them to life with paint. “(Southampton Art Center, East End Collects6, reviewed by Michelle Trauring)