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Gallery of Mixed-Media Artwork Grass Glass and Other Glass Art
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Artist Biography |
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Hextrusions |
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Doughlas Remy graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.A. in French and German and enough courses in Art History to qualify for a minor. Art continued to be a background interest for nearly a decade while Doughlas pursued further language learning and travelled in Europe. At the University of Texas in Austin, he took two M.A. degrees, one in French and Italian, and the other in Foreign Language Education, and he then spent eleven years in Saudi Arabia working as a teacher and editor at a Saudi university. While in graduate school, Doughlas had begun painting and drawing abstract compositions, using acrylics and watercolors. While abroad, he continued to paint during whatever free time he could salvage from his professional career. The larger acrylic paintings (up to 4’x6’) proved too burdensome to accompany him on his travels. These were sold or given away over the years, and only photographs remain of them. Some of them were left behind in Saudi Arabia when Doughlas fled there in 1990 just following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Upon returning to the US, Doughlas moved to Seattle, where he has finally enjoyed the stability to nurture and to preserve his art. He has shifted his career focus from foreign language education to graphic design and currently teaches “Prepress Processes and Techniques” in Bellevue Community College’s Art Zone program. Though Doughlas’s interest in the art of assemblage began almost twenty years ago, he did not create his first assemblage until 1998. Since then, he has produced 150 works, almost half of which have found buyers through Northwest galleries and other venues. One of his works was selected for the International Exhibition of Assemblage Art in Berlin, Germany, and, more recently, a large work was chosen for inclusion in the Bellevue Arts Museum’s exhibition of Northwest Arts and Crafts, to begin in October, 2005. Though he has mostly self-identified as an assemblagiste since 1998, Doughlas characterizes his most recent works as 3-D mixed media and foresees further use of traditional art media instead of the “non-art” materials used in assemblages. Doughlas is a member of Artist Trust (Seattle), Northwest Designer Craftsmen, and the Pratt Fine Arts Center.
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