Doug Argue


Doug Argue is an American painter based in New York City, New York, United States.

Career

After attending art classes at Bemidji State University and the University of Minnesota from 1980 to 1983, Argue's early works were influenced by German Expressionism. During his two different trips to Venice, he was influenced by Italian 16th century paintings, such as Tintoretto’s , which inspired him to begin creating more large scale works.
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 the protagonists of a saga where conventionally neglected creatures were turned into subjugated minorities.
Since 1983, Argue's work has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions.

Artwork in the World Trade Center

In the beginning of November 2014, his works Randomly Placed Exact Percentages and Isotropic have been on display in the lobby of One World Trade Center as a part of the art collection of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the building.

56th Venice Biennale

In 2015, during the Venice Biennale he exhibited Scat-tered Rhymes in the Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo on the Grand Canal.

Special project (2018)

In 2018, his work Footfalls Echo in Memory, 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.

Selected exhibions