David Douglas | Flowers

DAVID DOUGLAS FLOWERS

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DAVID DOUGLAS Lives and works in Alexandria, VA

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 openended 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

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F-1 Portrait of a Hydranga , 2006 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 60 x 50 inches $7,000 4

F-2 Orchid From the Porch , 2015 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 55 x 45 inches $7,000 5

F-2 Color Orchid From the Porch , 2015 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 55 x 45 inches $7,000 6

F-3 Dahlia , 2006 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 55 x 45 inches $5,000 7

F-4 Still Life with Tulip Magnolia , 2004 Mixed media on paper, framed behind glass 22 x 22 inches $2,000 8

F-5 Still Life with Tulip Magnolia & 2 Plates, 2005 Mixed media on paper, framed behind glass 22 x 22 inches $2,000 9

F-6 Onancock Still Life , 2008 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 60 x 45 inches $7,000 10

F-7 Still Life with Tulip Magnolia 2, 2004 Mixed media on paper, framed behind glass 38 x 24 inches $3,500 11

F-8 Single White Rose, 2004 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 56 x 44 inches $6,000 12

F-9 Tulip Bowl Vase, 2007 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 40 x 40 inches $5,000 13

F-10 Triple , 2009 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 65 x 55 inches $6,000 14

F-11 Wild Rose Bud, 2010 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 63 x 50 inches $6,000 15

F-12 Ann’s Zennia, 2012 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 62 x 50 inches $6,000 16

F-14 Large Study, Triple, 2008 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 54 x 40 inches $6,000 17

F-15 Zinnia Bud, 2012 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 64 x 50 inches $6,000 18

F-16 Zinnia Bud Color, 2012 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 64 x 50 inches $6,000 19

F-17 Dogwood on Orange, 2015 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 65 x 50 inches $7,000 20

F-18 Virginia Dogwood , 2010 Mixed media on panel 65 x 50 inches NFS 21

F-19 Tomato Bud , 2020 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 65 x 50 inches $7,000 22

F-20 Still Life with Tulip Magnolia & Small Chair, 2005 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 30 x 44 inches $5,000 23

F-21 Peonies Bud, 2010 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 65 x 50 inches $7,000 24

F-22 Italian Sunflower, 2012 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 62 x 50 inches $6,000 25

F-23 Sunflower, 2013 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 60 x 54 inches $6,000 26

F-24 Large Study Ann’s Valentine, 2007 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 71 x 50 inches $6,000 27

F-24C Ann’s Valentine, 2008 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 81 x 60 inches $10,000 28

F-25 Double, 2005 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 63 x 50 inches $6,000 29

F-26 Large Study Orange Zinnia, 2015 Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 72 x 50 inches $7,000 30

DAVID DOUGLAS Abbreviated CV EDUCATION 1984 MFA Painting, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 1981 BA Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2024 “VIEWFIND 12”, Group Photography Show, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA 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) SELECT PUBLIC 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 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.

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DAVID DOUGLAS FLOWERS Catalog Design Rachel Crawford, Registrar To purchase or inquire, please email us at admin@pagebondgallery.com

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