DOUG GILBERT
Rockledge, Florida
570-430-1763
Email: dgilbert@dgilbert.net, Online: www.dgilbert.net,
Instagram: artworkofdouggilbert, FaceBook: Artwork of Doug Gilbert
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts/Painting, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 1971
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1973 Bank of America, Wenatchee, Washington
1975 Pinnacle House, Sea Cliff, New York
1981 The Art Ark Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts
1998 Madelon Powers Gallery, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2005 Artspace Gallery, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2008 One Person Shows in numerous business venues around Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2013 (44 works) Chant Reality Gallery, Lords Valley, Pennsylvania
2016 (24 works) Snydersville Diner, Snydersville, Pennsylvania
2017 (22 works) Sanofi-Pasteur, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1969 Group Show, Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
1972 Alumni Show, Hofstra University Gallery, Hempstead, New York
1991-1992 Group Show, The Open Gallery, Harvard Square, Massachusetts
1992 Group Show, ARTBoston, Hynes Auditorium, Boston, Massachusetts
1994 Group Show, Lurie Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
2000 Juried Group Show, Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
2003 and 2004 Annual Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2006 Two Person Show, Artspace Gallery, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2006 Annual Regional Group Show, Stroudsmoor Inn, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania - 1st place in oils/acrylics
2006 COTA Jazz Festival Art Show, Dutot Museum, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania - 2nd place in oils/acrylics
2007 Two Person Show, Artspace Gallery, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2008 Annual Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania - 2nd place in mixed media
2008 Two Person Show, Artspace Gallery, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2004 - 2009 Member Artspace Cooperative Gallery, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2010 Annual Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania - 1st place in acrylic painting
2012 Group Show, Agora Gallery, New York, New York
2012 Annual Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania - 1st place in acrylic painting
2013 Annual Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2014 Annual Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2014 Small Works Group Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania - 1st place
2015 Annual Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2016 Annual Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2016 Group Show, Spazio40 Galleria d’Art, Rome, Italy
2017 Group Show, Art Gallery of Viera, Viera, Florida
2017 Annual Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2017 Group Show, Spazio Ungallery, Milan, Italy
2017 Group Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania - 1st place
2017 Group Show, Galerie Das Fenster, Munich, Germany
2018 Group Shows, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2018 Group Show, Gamut Art Gallery, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2018 Group Show, Renegade Winery Gallery, Stroudsburg Pennsylvania
2018 Group Shows, Galerie Das Fenster, Munich, Germany
2018 Group Show, Muzeul Județean Gorj Alexandru Ștefulescu,Targu Jiu, Romania
2019 Group Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
2020 Group Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania - 1st place in multi-media
2021 Group Show, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania – 3rd place in multi-media
2022 August Featured Artist, Eau Gallery, Melbourne, Florida
2023 Continuous Exhibit at Strawbridge Art League Gallery, Melbourne, Florida
PUBLICATIONS
2013 Published in International Contemporary Artists Volume VII
OTHER VOCATIONS
1971 - 1973 Professional drummer for several rock bands, Long Island, New York
1974 - 1992 Technical illustrator, 15 years on staff, 3 years independent contractor
Illustrated textbooks at all levels for numerous major US publishers, including books about mathematics, physics, chemistry, business, pianos, archeology, history, and computers. Freelance clients included Jimmy Carter, Robert Moog, Ray Kurzweil, and Larry Fine, author of the Piano Book. Illustrations also published Newsweek, Musician Magazine, and The New York Times (Full width, 16th page size).
1989 - 2016 Computer support professional and programmer, providing high level technical support to Fortune 500 corporations and the US government.
Artist's Statement
My work documents a spiritual search for gnosis, the direct perception in consciousness of the foundation of Reality. Over the course of my artistic life I have endeavored to understand how consciousness shows and conditions our perceptions of the world. In my late teens I determined that thinking alone was too limited a tool so I turned to art and then meditation as well. It has gotten me further and given me a guide to a loving life but revealed impenetrable mysteries as well. I love those mysteries and that has lead me willy-nilly to an increasingly non-representational style rich with ambiguity and suggestion. I never know where it will go next, but my art necessarily continues to evolve as a reflection of my changing perceptions.
Philosophical Perspective
As I see it, an artwork presents an intermediate reality between the natural sense perceived world and the non-sensual interior objects of consciousness. The work itself is of course a sense-perceived natural object, but the organization of form and color originates in consciousness and is not in itself part of the natural ecological framework that supports our physical existence. My work, being done using my body (as opposed to using electronics) also implicitly maps the mechanical structure of a human being. I believe this creates a synergy between the world of consciousness and that of physical nature that potentially presents a complete human perception of our Reality. The artwork does not represent anything. The apparent objects in the framed space are perceptual constructions of our consciousness and the material the work is composed of simply is, just like a tree or the sky. None of it requires interpretation. Because the patterns have a source in another human being, they may resonate in you and produce thoughts and emotions. Those are objects of your consciousness. It may be that the origin of those evoked objects is the same as the origin of mine. Insofar as they are, the artwork serves to remind us in a profound way that we are not so separate as we think. This commonality, for me, is the root of the Reality of everything and I am in love with it.