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Doug Groupp New York, NY www.groupp.net ARTIST STATEMENT My goal as an artist is to explore raw personal reflection in combination with the public psyche. The use of recontextualized images infuses the work with a sense of immediacy and intimacy. I like the highly public and accessible nature of my materials--the images that have been used, touched and seen by others. The form is often alien, absurd and science fictionesque in nature. I usually begin without a preconceived image. If I do decide to work with a preconceived image, I let that image evolve as any form evolves in nature. I blot out forms that look contrived in my art, so as to create a natural form as possible. I am inspired by Max Ernst for his collages and frottages and by Dubuffet for his playfulness and use of texture. My approach to the process in creating this work is phenomenologically oriented. I work with images as they exist in the moment without any hidden meaning. I decide on the images based on their humor, color, aesthetic appeal and how they interact with each other. |
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EDUCATION SUNY Purchase BFA Bachelor in Fine Arts 1992 Purchase, NY |
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| SELECT EXHIBITIONS 473 Broadway Gallery Group Show Collages on Book Covers Jan 2004 473 Broadway 7th Flr New York, NY 10013 38-09 Studios & Rubulad Presents curated by Claudio Gonzalez and AsheleyGallery.net Group Show in A.I.R Gallery October 2003 Screen prints & Collages 38-09 31st St LIC, NY National Collage Society, Inc.14th Annual Juried Exhibit October 1998 Collage Narrative Wickendan Gallery, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio Warren Street Gallery Paintings & Abstract Art June 1996 316 Warren St., Hudson, N.Y. Groupp Gallery 1994-1996 601 Warren St. Hudson, NY SUNY Purchase BFA Bachelor in Fine Arts 1992 Purchase, NY Edward Hopper House Juried Show - Granted award of Excellence for Self Portrait Acrylic on Canvas boards May - June 1998 Hopper House 82 North Broadway, Nyack, New York | ||
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