Over Here, Over There | Doug Argue

A NYC artist with Minnesota origins, Argue is known for wall-sized canvases and an international, award-winning career.

Influenced by an early love of Asian landscape painting and the idea that it’s impossible to visualize the scale of the universe, Doug continues working within his paintings to create a feeling that they can expand out and beyond the edges of the picture plane. Over Here, Over There presents dazzling schools of fish; every fish is unique, and part of a dynamic, complex system.

In a surprising reversal of scale, the 14 paintings in this exhibition range in size from 9 x 12” to 3 x 4’. Argue created this body of work specifically to accommodate Groveland Gallery’s exhibition space. A meticulously technical painter, Argue treats these small paintings with the same intensity as his large works, using a 10x magnifier to administer the finest details of every shimmering fish, some as small as a grain of rice, or disappearing into a speck of paint.

About the Artist:

New York City-based artist Doug Argue’s forty-year painting career has culminated in a well-known and recognizable body of work that ranges from pure abstraction to representation. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Argue’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including at Edelman Arts and Haunch of Venison in New York and the Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica. Two of his new monumental paintings commissioned for the lobby of One World Trade Center in Manhattan are now on display. His work is in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, Weisman Art Museum, and numerous other museums, corporate and private collections.

Argue’s Minnesota audience know his large museum pieces well: Mia’s Library of Babel (1994-1997), Minnesota Museum of American Art’s Some Memories (1998), Minnesota History Center’s The Buffalo Painting (1991), and Untitled (Chicken Painting) (1991-1993), housed in the University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum. Argue was commissioned by the New York Port Authority to create two paintings for the lobby of New York City’s One World Trade Center: Randomly Placed Exact Percentages (2009 – 2013) and Isotropic (2009 – 2013).

Presented concurrently with Shifting Visions | Michael Kareken

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