Doug Argue Explained

Doug Argue
Birth Date:21 January 1962
Birth Place:Saint Paul, Minnesota[1]
Nationality:American
Education:
Notable Works:Randomly Placed Exact Percentages (2009-2013)
Isotropic (2009-2013)

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, Argue's early figurative works were influenced by German Expressionism. 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] 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

See main article: Artwork in the World Trade Center. 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

See main article: 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)

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

Doug Argue: Letters to the Future (Skira, 2020)

Selected exhibitions

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Awards and recognition

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Doug Argue biography . 2020-07-04 . Waterhouse & Dodd . en . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705104906/https://www.waterhousedodd.com/artists/33-doug-argue/biography/ . live .
  2. Web site: Scotta. Danilo Jon. 5 June 2020. Doug Argue: energy beyond the surface. The unconventional questioning. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705064828/https://www.ny-artnews.com/single-post/2020/06/Doug-Argue-energy-beyond-the-surface-The-unconventional-questioning-underlying-Argues-poetics . 2020-07-05 . 2020-07-05. ny-artnews. en.
  3. Web site: Blakemore . Erin . Enormous Chicken Painting Comes Home to Roost . 2020-07-05 . Smithsonian Magazine . en . 2020-07-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200707113347/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/enormous-chicken-painting-comes-home-roost-180963401/ . live .
  4. Web site: Bye-bye, birdies . 2020-07-05 . Star Tribune . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705110814/https://www.startribune.com/bye-bye-birdies/182552671/ . live .
  5. Web site: Doug Argue Biography . 2020-07-06 . www.artnet.com . 2015-10-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151007123258/http://www.artnet.com/artists/doug-argue/biography . live .
  6. Web site: Expansive abstractions of the universe on view at newly opened One World Trade Center . 2020-07-04 . artdaily.cc . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705194600/https://artdaily.cc/news/74085/Expansive-abstractions-of-the-universe-on-view-at-newly-opened-One-World-Trade-Center-#.XwEAuygzZaR . live .
  7. Web site: 2015-02-25 . Unity Through Abstraction: One World Trade Center's Art Collection . 2020-07-04 . Artsy . en . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705070206/https://www.artsy.net/article/editorial-unity-through-abstraction-one-world-trade-centers . live .
  8. Web site: Riley. Charles A. II. 2015-02-28. Power of Art Succeeds in 1 World Trade Center Art Collection. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150320180421/http://hamptonsarthub.com:80/2015/02/28/art-review-power-of-art-succeeds-in-one-world-trade-center-art-collection/ . 2015-03-20 . 2020-07-04. hamptonsarthub.com. en-US.
  9. Web site: Nardin . Marie Ohanesian . 2015-05-08 . Venice Biennale Arte 2015: Doug Argue's Scattered Rhymes, a Satellite Exhibit You'll Want to See . 2020-07-04 . HuffPost . en . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705104901/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/venice-biennale-arte-2015_b_7242338 . live .
  10. Web site: McAlpine . Skye . Venice Biennale 2015: Our Favorite Under-the-Radar Art Exhibits . 2020-07-04 . Condé Nast Traveler . 11 May 2015 . en . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705184921/https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2015-05-11/venice-biennale-2015-our-favorite-under-the-radar-art-exhibits . live .
  11. Web site: Tollon . Marie . 2018-03-16 . A Veil Over the Moment: "News of the World" Program Notes . 2020-07-04 . Medium . en . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705064549/https://medium.com/odc-dance-stories/a-veil-over-the-moment-news-of-the-world-program-notes-a5b2c9bad8f4 . live .
  12. Web site: 2018-03-17 . ODC/Dance – News of the World, What we carry What we keep – San Francisco . 2020-07-04 . DanceTabs . en-US . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705183211/https://dancetabs.com/2018/03/odc-dance-news-of-the-world-what-we-carry-what-we-keep-san-francisco/ . live .
  13. Web site: The Library of Babel, Doug Argue ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art. 2020-07-05. collections.artsmia.org. 2020-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705222654/https://collections.artsmia.org/art/5420/the-library-of-babel-doug-argue. live.
  14. Web site: Untitled (Plymouth Plantation), Doug Argue ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art. 2020-07-05. collections.artsmia.org. 2020-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705221659/https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43725/untitled-doug-argue. live.
  15. Web site:
    1. 12, from the Botanical series, Doug Argue ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art
    . 2020-07-05. collections.artsmia.org. 2020-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705221828/https://collections.artsmia.org/art/89318/12-from-the-botanical-series-doug-argue. live.
  16. Web site: Doug Argue. 2020-07-05. walkerart.org. en-US. 2020-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705202415/https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/doug-argue. live.
  17. Web site: Doug Argue . 2020-07-06 . The Art Altruist . en-US . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705064551/https://www.theartaltruist.com/doug-argue . dead .
  18. Web site: Bye-bye, birdies . 2020-07-06 . Star Tribune . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705110814/https://www.startribune.com/bye-bye-birdies/182552671/ . live .
  19. Web site: Exhibition of new paintings by genre-busting painter Doug Argue opens at Edelman Arts . 2020-07-06 . artdaily.cc . 2020-07-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200706060132/https://artdaily.cc/news/60869/Exhibition-of-new-paintings-by-genre-busting-painter-Doug-Argue-opens-at-Edelman-Arts#.XwKFkBNKh24 . live .
  20. Web site: Doug Argue . 2020-07-05 . The Art Altruist . en-US . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705064551/https://www.theartaltruist.com/doug-argue . dead .
  21. Web site: Doug Argue . 2020-07-05 . PIERMARQ* - Contemporary art gallery, Paddington, Sydney . en . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705144634/https://www.piermarq.com.au/artists/33-doug-argue/overview/ . live .
  22. Web site: Doug Argue . 2020-07-05 . Marc Straus . en-US . 2020-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200705194609/https://www.marcstraus.com/exhibitions/doug-argue-april-2018/ . live .

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