Catégorie : Stapleton

2014, Oct
« Exhibition in Print: The Face in Collage. » Kolaj Magazine, Issue #10.
2013, Fall-Winter
« Doug Stapleton. Interview by Kieran Donnan. » 22 Magazine, Volume 4, Collage
2013, Dec
« 12 Days. Day 1. Collage. Doug Stapleton. » Fat Boy Review (online journal), Richard House, Editor.
2013
« Admiration. » (image) published in the South Loop Review. Vol 15. Columbia College Chicago, USA.
“In Metamorphosis and outside time: In works by Vivian van Blerk and Doug Stapleton at Jennifer Norback Fine Arts, archetypes reoccur and time is rearranged”, Sarah Nardi, Chicago Reader.
2012, Dec 16
“Art Review: Doug Stapleton, Optimistic Reconstructions”, Diane Thodos, NeotericART: An Online Art Magazine
2011
« Juxtaposed in Its Essence », catalog, Ed Krantz, curator. Elgin Community College, Elgin IL, USA.
2009, Dec 31
« Critics Pick: Paul Clark and Doug Stapleton », Las Manos Gallery. NewCity.

2014
Like This. with Cindy Bernhard, Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago IL, USA.
A Passing Fancy, Center on Halsted Gallery, Chicago IL , USA.
Tales Tolds, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH, USA.
Bodies, North Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle Washington, USA.
Like This. with Cindy Bernhard. Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago IL, USA.

2013
In Metamorphosis (with Vivian van Blerk), Jennifer Norback Fine Arts, Chicago IL, USA.
Galex 47, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg IL, USA. Juried exhibition.

2012
Optimistic Reconstructions, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, USA.
The Grand Spectacle: Recent Collages, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago IL, USA.

2011
Juxtaposed in its Essence, Elgin Community College Safety-Kleen Gallery, Elgin IL, USA.

2010
Michael and Angelo, Eyeporium Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
Romp, The Depot Gallery, Beverly Shores, Indiana, USA.

2009
New Collages, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
Navigation Imagination, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver CO, USA.
From What Are Dreams (two person exhibition), Eyeporium Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
3×3 Exhibition, Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago IL, USA.

2008
Sideshow, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.

2006-08
12×12, Refuge Center for Artists in Recovery, Skokie IL, USA.

2001
Making Art Matter : Artists Transforming Society, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI, USA.

American, born 1963.
Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Doug Stapleton is an artist, curator and educator. He is an Assistant Curator of Art with the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery and an adjunct faculty in the Interdisciplinary Arts graduate program at Columbia College Chicago. Stapleton’s work has been the subject of two solo exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center and Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago in 2012.

A former Artistic Associate with the Chicago based contemporary dance company « The Seldoms », he had worked on eleven evening length dance performances in the capacity of dramaturg and as a performer. Prior to his work with the Seldoms, he has performed in over forty solo and collaborative performances since 1989. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989, and a BA in Anthropology from University of Delaware with a minor concentration in Art History and Ceramics.

“In my collages, I re-configure found images into ambiguous narratives that often refer to the source, but mess around with the original message. Visually I respond to the operatic sparkle and complexity—the grandly narrated spectacle—that is the history of western art. I want to continue that high key drama in my work.
My background in anthropology and art history informs how I construct these collages. I’m tethered to the possible of the story within the fragment. I play loosely with symbols and metaphors from art history, language, and religion to create new images that are strongly representational, with an attention to precise cutting and visual consistency, and a nod toward absurd, implied narrative.”

website: http://dougstapleton.com/

Fotofever Paris, 2015

Poseidon, 2014

Collages, 2011-13