Doug Argue
Doug Argue (born January 21, 1962, in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American painter based in New York City, New York, United States.[1]
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Nationality | American |
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Notable work | Randomly Placed Exact Percentages (2009-2013) Isotropic (2009-2013) |
Website | dougargue |
Career
After attending art classes at Bemidji State University and the University of Minnesota from 1980 to 1983,[2] Argue's early figurative works were influenced by German Expressionism.[2] During his two different trips to Venice, he was deeply moved by such 16th-century Italian painters as Titian and Tintoretto, whose massive Crucifixion moved him to begin creating more large-scale works.[2]
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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 protagonists in a saga where conventionally neglected creatures were turned into subjugated minorities.[3][4]
Since 1983, Argue's work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Australia and the United States.[5] His first museum show was a 1985 Viewpoints exhibition at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Artwork in the World Trade Center
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In November 2014, three large oil paintings by Argue (Randomly Placed Exact Percentages (2009-2013), Genesis (2007-09) and Isotropic (2009-2013)) were installed in the lobby of One World Trade Center as 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 Scattered Rhymes in the Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo on the Grand Canal.[9][10]
Special project (2018)
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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]
Publications
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Doug Argue: Letters to the Future (Skira, 2020)
Selected exhibitions
Minnesota Museum of American Art
- Weisman Art Museum[3]
- Grand Rapids Art Museum[17]
- Cafesjian Museum of Art, Yerevan, Armenia[18]
- Port Authority, World Trade Center, NY
- Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
- Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, MN
References
- "Doug Argue biography". Waterhouse & Dodd. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
- Scotta, Danilo Jon (5 June 2020). "Doug Argue: energy beyond the surface. The unconventional questioning". ny-artnews. Archived from the original on 2020-07-05. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- 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. Archived from the original on 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (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 (11 May 2015). "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.
- "Doug Argue". The Art Altruist. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- "Bye-bye, birdies". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- "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 2020-07-05.
- "Doug Argue". PIERMARQ* - Contemporary art gallery, Paddington, Sydney. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- "Doug Argue". Marc Straus. Retrieved 2020-07-05.