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. Argue’s work reflects his poetic interest in the relationship between infinity and the individual, creating an expansive vision, shaped by his travels, readings, and connections with creatives worldwide. He captures the constant flux and shifting of life. His oeuvre includes creating larger-than-life paintings, these expressionist images, exploring his interests in time, space, the environment, and the nature of perception, stands apart from the abstract or conceptual art of many of his contemporaries.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Argue’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including Piermarq Gallery, Sydney Australia, Kovacek Gallery, Vienna Austria, the Venice Biennale in 2015, Edelman Arts, Haunch of Venison, Waterhouse and Dodd, Marc Strauss gallery in New York and the Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica. Two of his monumental paintings were commissioned for the lobby of One World Trade Center in Manhattan are now on display. Doug was the subject of a career survey exhibition at the Weisman art Museum in 2015 and a survey book titled “Letters to the Future”, published by Skira in Milan accompanied the exhibition. 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.