Doug Robinson artwork from Elliott Louis Gallery

Doug Robinson

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Doug Robinson's work represents a playful merging between traditional painting and photo realism. Robinson steers a course between mid 20th century modernism and his contemporary milieu. Through deploying classical portrait geometry and optics his paintings generate an ironic play of underlying geometries that bring to presence scenes densely layered with conflicting narratives.

Robinson articulates the disconnected nature of our every day. Consistent with post modern practices in the photographic arts, Robinson is guided by the discipline of deconstructing the strictures of both representationalism and formalism.

Always aware of the larger historical lineage out of which painting has emerged, Robinson's works are systematically governed by a strength of line and classical techniques used in the ordering and manipulation of perception. Both cerebrally and viscerally his work stands as an important contribution to the world of contemporary visual arts.

Printable Version of Artist Statement and Bio.

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Sheena 77.5 x 48 Inches acrylic on linen	Manny's F&B Show Bar 36 x 48 Inches acrylic on linen
False Creek 27.5 x 44.25 Inches acrylic on linen	Vancouver Art Gallery Shop 77.5 x 48 Inches acrylic on linen
Millie at English Bay 77.5 x 48 Inches acrylic on linen	Mission Fair 27.5 x 44.25 Inches acrylic on linen
Duck Pond 42 x 34 Inches acrylic on linen	Alex 77.5 x 48 Inches acrylic on linen
Van Art Gal 27.5 x 44.25 Inches acrylic on linen	Fat Guy 27.5 x 44.25 Inches acrylic on canvas
Tilt A Whirl 34 x 42 Inches acrylic on linen	Violence Between Consenting Adults 44.25 x 27.5 Inches acrylic on linen
Pork & Rabbit 44.25 x 27.5 Inches acrylic on linen	Cowheeler Supreme 48 x 77.5 Inches acrylic on linen Exhibited at Artropolis 2001, and the B.C.Festival of the Arts, Robinson’s “Cowheeler Supreme” is a wryly conceived portrait of a young woman smoking click here for more...
Annie O'Brian 77.5 x 48 Inches acrylic on canvas	The Olympians 58 x 94 Inches acrylic on cotton
End of the Day 21 x 34 Inches acrylic on canvas	Dear Me 21 x 34 Inches acrylic on linen
Titian Formula 42 x 34 Inches acrylic on linen

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Biography

Born in 1945 in Wolfville, NS, and raised in Noranda, Que, Doug Robinson began to paint at age 10. He was always fascinated with mathematics and its paradoxes, and it was during his involvement in the Dome Show at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the early 1970's, that he was inspired to apply mathematical calculus to painting.

Robinson was also intrigued as a child by the classical Greek pictorial ratio known as the Golden Section and he began to apply it directly to his work. Fully taken by the rigour of arranging his compositions mathematically , he later extended his analytic process to the use and understanding of colour.

Doug Robinson's work has been critically reviewed in several issues of the visual arts magazine, Artichoke.

Printable Version of Artist Statement and Bio.

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