Making Stuff Like Pictures
Opening night – Friday, December 16th
from 6:00 – 10:00pm
Douglas’ works seeks to exploit and celebrate the various ways in which the painted image separates itself from other kinds of imagery. His recent work often calls attention to the relationship between the image, the thing that we can hold in our mind, and the object that holds or supports it. Currently, he is working on a number of carved reproductions of surfaces from public spaces. These low relief carvings investigate the ways in which abstraction can render specific and autobiographical content anonymous. They also attempt to both depict some thing, object, or surface while, at the same time, being that object or surface.
Douglas is originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, Douglas Degges graduated with a BA from Rhodes College in 2009 and a MFA from the University of Iowa in 2012. His work has been exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States. Most recently his work was exhibited at Art Helix in Brooklyn, NY, GLITCH in Memphis, TN, Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA, and the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Athens GA. He currently teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and was recently invited to participate in the artist- in-residence program at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT.