Doug Argue
Doug Argue | |
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Nationality | American |
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Notable work | Randomly Placed Exact Percentages (2009-2013) Isotropic (2009-2013) |
Website | dougargue |
Doug Argue (born January 21, 1962 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American painter based in New York City, New York, United States.[1]
Career
After attending art classes at Bemidji State University and the University of Minnesota from 1980 to 1983,[2] Argue's early works were influenced by German Expressionism.[2] During his two different trips to Venice, he was influenced by Italian 16th century paintings, such as Tintoretto’s Crucifixion, which inspired him to begin creating more large scale works.[2]
In 1989, after the birth of his son, Mattison, Argue's work started being characterized by the use of parts to render the idea of a whole. He chose chickens as the protagonists of a saga where conventionally neglected creatures were turned into subjugated minorities.[3][4]
Since 1983, Argue's work has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions.[5]
Artwork in the World Trade Center
In the beginning of November 2014, his works Randomly Placed Exact Percentages (2009-2013) and Isotropic (2009-2013) have been on display in the lobby of One World Trade Center as a part of the art collection of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the building.[6][7][8]
56th Venice Biennale
In 2015, during the Venice Biennale he exhibited Scat-tered Rhymes in the Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo on the Grand Canal.[9][10]
Special project (2018)
In 2018, his work Footfalls Echo in Memory (2017), a re-visitation of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was both the source for choreography and part of the scenography for News of the World, a dance show performed by ODC/Dance.[11][12]
Selected exhibions
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts[13][14][15]
- Walker Art Center[16]
- Minnesota Museum of American Art[17]
- Weisman Museum[3]
- Grand Rapids Art Museum[18]
- Cafesjian Museum of Art, Yerevan, Armenia[19]
- Port Authority, World Trade Center, NY
- Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
- Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, MN
Awards and recognition
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[20] (1987)
- Rome Prize[21] (1997)
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant[22] (1995)
- Bush Foundation Fellowship (1988)
- London International Creative Competition First Prize (2009)
References
- ^ a b "Doug Argue biography". Waterhouse & Dodd. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
- ^ a b c Scotta, Danilo Jon (5 June 2020). "Doug Argue: energy beyond the surface. The unconventional questioning". ny-artnews. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Blakemore, Erin. "Enormous Chicken Painting Comes Home to Roost". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Bye-bye, birdies". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Doug Argue Biography". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "Expansive abstractions of the universe on view at newly opened One World Trade Center". artdaily.cc. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
- ^ "Unity Through Abstraction: One World Trade Center's Art Collection". Artsy. 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
- ^ Riley, Charles A., II (2015-02-28). "Power of Art Succeeds in 1 World Trade Center Art Collection". hamptonsarthub.com. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Nardin, Marie Ohanesian; ContributorWriter (2015-05-08). "Venice Biennale Arte 2015: Doug Argue's Scattered Rhymes, a Satellite Exhibit You'll Want to See". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
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has generic name (help) - ^ McAlpine, Skye. "Venice Biennale 2015: Our Favorite Under-the-Radar Art Exhibits". Condé Nast Traveler. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
- ^ Tollon, Marie (2018-03-16). "A Veil Over the Moment: "News of the World" Program Notes". Medium. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
- ^ "ODC/Dance – News of the World, What we carry What we keep – San Francisco". DanceTabs. 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
- ^ "The Library of Babel, Doug Argue ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Untitled (Plymouth Plantation), Doug Argue ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "#12, from the Botanical series, Doug Argue ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Doug Argue". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Exhibition of new paintings by genre-busting painter Doug Argue opens at Edelman Arts". artdaily.cc. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "Doug Argue". The Art Altruist. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "Bye-bye, birdies". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "Doug Argue". The Art Altruist. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Doug Argue". PIERMARQ* - Contemporary art gallery, Paddington, Sydney. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Doug Argue". Marc Straus. Retrieved 2020-07-05.