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I write, paint, play music, and am a professor of Engish at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, S. Korea. I spend eight months in Korea and four months in the US or Europe, painting and exhibit as much as possbile.
GIve me a shout at dougstuber@gmail.com after you look at the web site above.
I am an artist who is compelled to paint. Rather than choosing art as a profession, I started painting as a release from a life that was too packed with emotions. I had no idea what abstract expressionism was until my early mentor, Leo Garel, asked if I had ever heard of Jackson Pollack. Since then, exploring the way colors interact has been the passion that has saved my life.
Combining an expressionist's flair for color, with a newfound emphasis on subject matter, I am realizing paintings that jolt visually, while coaxing viewers to contemplate a complex life, not easily contained in a single motif.
Nature and emotions are dominant themes. I am likely to draw cartoons one day, attack a canvass the next. One day I glue, the next I throw, all in an attempt to express why I am compelled to paint.
I spent 1977-78 studying under Garel, in Stockbridge, Mass. then moved to the Florida outdoor art circuit. With Garel, I painted my way out of severe emotional troubles. Then, while exhibiting at outdoor shows in Florida, I started to land gallery exhibits. Twenty-eight years and 1,440 paintings later, I have hit a stride in which each creation delves deeper into my psyche.
The best pieces are those that retain their colorful underpinnings and express subtle philosophy at the same time.
You get what I feel, not just what I see. Some would call my work outsider art. I use recycled paint and found materials as much as possible, mixing modern art with the native tradition of revering and protecting nature at all times.
In 2004 and 2005 I helped co-found the Sea Frolic and Cedar Park artists colonies.
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
- Horace Mann
1988: M.A. creative writing, Hollins College
1985: B.S. journalism, University of Florida
1977-78: Art Apprentice under Leo Garel, Stockbridge, MA
1968-70: Art class under Paul Heiner at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
July, 2008: Internaotinal Artist Colony, Kicevo, Macedonia. Exhibits in September and October, 2008 in Kicevo and Skopje, Macedonia.
June, 2007: Prima Art Center, Berlin
1999-2006: Many Group Exhibits, Juried, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
May, 2002: Received Second Place Award in "Spring Has Sprung," Juried exhibit at Visual
Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC, and Second Place in the Juried VAE Ball exhibit.
1999: Visiting Artist, Carter Building First Fridays, Raleigh NC
1998: Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY
1978-1983: 118 Juried Outdoor Shows in Florida
1977-78: Garel Student Show, Lavender Door, Stockbridge, MA
Fellini, Bergman, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, and then too many individual movies to name here.
howevere: "As Good as it Gets," and from Iran: "Gaba," "White Balloons," and "The year of Drunken Horses." Il Postino was good, same to for Bad Boy and Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring" but the same Korean director. Everyone ought to see "Fascinating Vacation" too, but it has not bee subtitled into Engish, and is a Korean movie about the May 18, 1980 massacre of poeople demonstrating for democracy ion gwangu, S. Korea. TV? WHo has time. But Greay's anatomy, two and a half men and Despearate Housewives stand out.
Solo Exhibits:
2002-2005: Port City Java, Raleigh NC
2003-2004: Sizl Gallery, Carrboro NC
2002, 2004, 2005: Trial Lawyers Building, Raleigh, NC, 35 Large Works
2001: Louvre, Shack Gallery, Grand Opening Show, Carrboro, NC
2000: Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh NC, 2-hour demonstration for children's program.
2000: Trace Gallery, Raleigh NC, 3-hour demonstration of active art.
2000: Café Trio, Chapel Hill NC
1999: Visual Art Exchange Traveling Artist Series, Public Library, Garner, NC
1999: Blackwood Station Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
1999: NoFo Collection, Wilmington, NC
1994: Germanow Gallery, Rochester, NY
1987-1988: Unicorns and Butterflies, Roanoke, VA
Invitational Exhibits:
2006: Degas Gallery, McLean VA (September 2006)
2005: Pharmalink, FHI Durham, NC // NC IDEA Durham NC
Research Triangle Park Corporations
2005: Cedar Park Artist Colony at Sidestreet Gallery, Pittsboro, NC
2005: Sea Frolic International Artist Colony, Boca Raton, FL
2005: Realis Gallery, Winston Salem, NC
2004: Sea Frolic International Artist Colony, Boca Raton, FL
2004: No Boundaries + 1, ArtsCenter, Carrboro NC
2003: Glance Gallery, Raleigh NC
2003: Washington Korean Art Center, Vienna, VA
2002: Sizl Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2002: Campenella Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2002: No Boundaries, Acme Gallery, Wilmington, NC
2002: FAME, Club NV, Chapel Hill, NC
2001: Orange County Artists Guild, The ArtsCenter, Carrboro, NC
1999: Trace Gallery, Raleigh NC
1999: Internationalist Books, Chapel Hill, NC
1997: Teahouse Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
1996: Studios in the Square, Roanoke, VA
1995: Teahouse Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
1991: Alumni Show, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1988: Art Connections Gallery, Bethesda, MD
1984: Project D Gallery, Naples, FL
All Kurt Vonnegut, Wililam Faulkner, Hemingway, Cheevers, and poetry, all poetry.
