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DAVID DOUGLAS Artist Statement
Working at the intersection of drawing, painting and photography, David A. Douglas creates large-scale works that explore the power of place. Depicting personally significant landscapes on a monumental scale, Douglas offers the viewer the opportunity to enter his visual world and experience the potency that underlies each moment. Amplifying the inner beauty within the ordinary, Douglas’ works resonate with the intensity of a poem, simply stated yet somehow glowing with life from the inside out. Although the works appear to be photographs, Douglas’ method incorporates drawing and painting techniques as well. Trained first as a painter, Douglas came to use photography in mid-career, primarily as an offshoot of his work as a teacher. Although he now collects his imagery through a camera lens, his pieces still come into being through a process much more akin to painting. Image fragments are brought together with conscious attention focused on formal compositional elements. While drawn from specific and personally impactful landscapes, a finished work will most likely be made of parts from multiple places at once and is a depiction more of the artists’ vision rather than a specific place. In this way, Douglas imbues each scene with a luscious and beautifully confounding incongruity. These qualities are subtle. One has to look closely, but the reward is layered and sublime. These images tell stories. Large enough to imaginatively enter, the places Douglas creates are deeply grounded in the natural world. But traces of humanity are featured as well, with houses, benches, clotheslines, random debris and even figures sparsely populating the environment. Viewed through a diffuse light, these additions seem both random and purposeful, capturing frozen moments, implying action and meaning, a sense of the past and the future. As artist and storyteller, Douglas creates markers for viewers to follow. Questions are asked and open- ended answers are thoughtfully posed. What might be happening here? What makes me notice what I notice? What gives meaning to this randomness? What makes the ordinary extraordinary? Where am I, and how does it feel to be in this place? These works are deeply engaging and elementally familiar, comforting and disquieting, moments of life lived into by artist and viewer alike. Written by Nancy Sausser
Opposite Page Iowa Landscape With Blue House, 2015 (p. 38-39)
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Small Study, Eleanor’s House, 2019 Mixed media on paper 25 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches framed $2,500 framed 6
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Small Study, Near Diney’s House, 2019 Mixed media on paper 25 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches framed $2,500 framed 8
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Small Study, Off 81, 2019 Mixed media on paper 25 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches framed $2,500 framed 10
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Off 81 Again, 2019 Mixed media on panel 50 x 65 inches $9,000 12
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Large Study, Late Day Heather’s Home, 2019 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $6,000 framed without glass 14
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Alexandria Bay, 2019 Mixed media on paper 42 x 42inches $5,000 framed 16
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Liz’s House, 2020 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $6,000 framed without glass 18
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Onancock House, 2021 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $6,000 framed without glass 20
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Large Study, Home from Diney’s, 2019 Mixed media on paper 42 x 42inches $5,000 framed 22
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Large Study, Early Morning in the Valley, 2019 Mixed media on paper 50 x 50 inches $6,000 framed 24
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Large Study, Mount Vernon, 2022 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $6,000 framed 26
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Landscape Near Diney’s, 2019 Mixed media on panel 50 x 54 inches $8,000 unframed 28
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Large Study, Early Mountain Vineyard, 2019 Mixed media on paper 50 x 50 inches $6,000 framed 30
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Strolling at Mount Vernon, 2022 Mixed media on panel 50 x 65 inches $9,000 unframed 32
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Looking for August Street, 2020 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $6,000 unframed 34
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Large Study The Farm, 2022 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $6,500 unframed 36
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The House On the Corner, 2020 Mixed media on panel 50 x 58 inches $7,000 unframed 38
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End Of Summer, 2020 Mixed media on panel 67 x 50 inches $8,500 unframed 40
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Waiting for Nightfall, 2021 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $6,000 unframed 42
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On the Way to Alma and Lolly’s House, 2021 Mixed media on panel 65 x 55 inches $9,000 unframed 44
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The Secret Place, 2021 Mixed media on panel 60 x 70 inches $12,000 unframed 46
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Large Study Eleanor’s House, 2020 Mixed media on panel 40 x 40 inches $5,000 unframed 48
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Waiting, 2019 Mixed media on panel 85 x 65 inches $12,000 unframed 50
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Travels With Will, 2018 Mixed media on panel 85 x 61 inches $12,000 unframed 52
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Near Mount Vernon Distillery, 2020 Mixed media on panel 50 x 75 inches $8,000 unframed 54
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Holding the Light Pole, 2018 Mixed media on panel 67 x 50 inches $8,000 unframed 56
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Iowa Landscape With Blue House, 2015 Mixed media on panel 65 x 50 inches $8,000 unframed 58
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South of Old Town, 2020 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $5,000 unframed 60
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Moving Day, 2022 Mixed media on panel 50 x 75 inches $9,000 unframed 62
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School, 2022 Mixed media on panel 65 x 50 inches $9,000 unframed 64
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208 South Street, 2020 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $9,000 unframed 66
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Next Door 1789, 2021 Mixed media on panel 50 x 69 inches $8,500 unframed 68
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Invented Virginia Landscape, 2021 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $6,500 unframed 70
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Early Morning Fort Ward, 2022 Mixed media on panel 55 x 50 inches $7,000 unframed 72
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David Douglas Abbreviated CV Lives and works in Alexandria, VA EDUCATION 1984 MFA Painting, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 1981 BA Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2022 “Small Studies from Virginia Landscapes” National Institute of Health , Washington D.C. “New Works” Angie Newman Johnson Gallery , Alexandria VA 2021 “Selections from Shadows of Place” Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA “Shadows of Place” Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA 2020 “Come Together Right Now : “The Art of Gathering” Chrysler Museum of Art 2019 “Marcy’s Yard” Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Alexandria Va. {solo exhibition) “View Find” Page Bond Gallery, Richmond Virginia, (group exhibition) 2018 “looking for a Trace” Page Bond Gallery,Richmond VA, (solo exhibition) “Refresh Summer” Longview Gallery, Washington DC “AAA@60 The Diamond Exhibition”, The Academy Art Museum, Easton Maryland “Those Who Can” , Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Alexandria Virginia “View Find” Page Bond Gallery, Richmond Virginia, (group show) 2017 Selected Works, Longview Gallery, Washington D.C. Governors Mansion, Virginia landscapes as part of garden week celebration Richmond Virginia Garden Week Celebration, Governor’s Mansion, Richmond, VA 2016 “Moving Through” The Mclean Project for the Arts, Mclean, VA Moving Through, The McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA Two-person exhibition with William Mebane, Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Alexandra, VA 2014 New Year, New Artist, Long View Gallery, Washington, DC 2013 These Places That I Know, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD Selected Works, Gallery One, Nashville, TN Selected works from These Places That I Know, Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Alexandria, VA 2012 Circa 1839, Pride Fine Art, Alexandria, VA 2011 The Fleeting Glimpse: Selections in Modern and Contemporary Photography from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA 2010 The Fleeting Glimpse: Selections in Modern and Contemporary Photography from the Virginia Museum Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850-2010, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA 2009 Made in Virginia, Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Alexandria, VA 2003 Recent Digital Prints, Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD 2002 Selected Works, T. Rowe Price Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2001 Large Digital Prints, Washington Gas Company, Washington, DC 2001 Digital Prints, Slayton House Gallery, Columbia, MD 2000 Interiors & Exteriors, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD 2000 New Works, The Cultural Center at the Palace of le Granja, Segovia, Spain 2000 Selected Works, A&A Gallery, Baltimore, MD
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SELECT COLLECTIONS Chrysler Museum of Art Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Academy Art Museum Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History Georgetown University Collection of Art Shepherd Center The Christopher and Beverly With Collection The Richard Marks Collection James Madison University Virginia Intermont College Dominion Energy The Washington Post NewMarket Corporation Marriott Corporation Episcopal High School White and Case Gray Rust St. Amand Moffett Brieske L.L.P. Bishop Mark Andrus
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