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 Sausser3
60 x 50 inches
$7,000
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F-1 Portrait of a Hydranga , 2006
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
55 x 45 inches
$7,000
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F-2 Orchid From the Porch , 2015
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
55 x 45 inches
$7,000
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F-2 Color Orchid From the Porch , 2015
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
55 x 45 inches
$5,000
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F-3 Dahlia , 2006
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
$2,000
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F-4 Still Life with Tulip Magnolia , 2004 Mixed media on paper, framed behind glass 22 x 22 inches
$2,000
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F-5 Still Life with Tulip Magnolia & 2 Plates, 2005
Mixed media on paper, framed behind glass
22 x 22 inches
$7,000
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F-6 Onancock Still Life , 2008
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
60 x 45 inches
$3,500
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F-7 Still Life with Tulip Magnolia 2, 2004 Mixed media on paper, framed behind glass 38 x 24 inches
56 x 44 inches
$6,000
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F-8 Single White Rose, 2004
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
40 x 40 inches
$5,000
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F-9 Tulip Bowl Vase, 2007
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
65 x 55 inches
$6,000
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F-10 Triple , 2009
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
63 x 50 inches
$6,000
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F-11 Wild Rose Bud, 2010
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
62 x 50 inches
$6,000
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F-12 Ann’s Zennia, 2012
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
54 x 40 inches
$6,000
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F-14 Large Study, Triple, 2008
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
64 x 50 inches
$6,000
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F-15 Zinnia Bud, 2012
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
64 x 50 inches
$6,000
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F-16 Zinnia Bud Color, 2012
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
65 x 50 inches
$7,000
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F-17 Dogwood on Orange, 2015
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
Mixed
65 x 50 inches
NFS
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F-18 Virginia Dogwood , 2010
media on panel
65 x 50 inches
$7,000
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F-19 Tomato Bud , 2020
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
30 x 44 inches
$5,000
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F-20 Still Life with Tulip Magnolia & Small Chair, 2005
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
65 x 50 inches
$7,000
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F-21 Peonies Bud, 2010
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
62 x 50 inches
$6,000
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F-22 Italian Sunflower, 2012
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
60 x 54 inches
$6,000
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F-23 Sunflower, 2013
$6,000
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F-24 Large Study Ann’s Valentine, 2007
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
71 x 50 inches
F-24C Ann’s Valentine, 2008
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass 81 x 60 inches
$10,000
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63 x 50 inches
$6,000
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F-25 Double, 2005
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
72 x 50 inches
$7,000
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F-26 Large Study Orange Zinnia, 2015
Mixed media on panel, framed without glass
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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