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Doug Gilbert has been drawing and painting since childhood. He worked as a professional technical illustrator for
fifteen years, illustrating textbooks at all levels for most of the major US publishers, as well as books about
pianos, archeology, history, business, and computers. Since 1992 he has provided technical support to clients with
large scale corporate Unix servers. He continues to paint in an evolving style in his studio in Pennsylvania.
"Art can be, at its very core, magical. I mean magical in the sense that it can evoke an awareness of something which transcends and empowers life and consciousness. This can inspire each of us with a desire to have it touch us. It is, in fact, the call of love." When I first encountered paintings by Kandinsky, Klee, Miro, and Archile Gorky in the NY museums as a teenager, I fell in love with the magical world that could be explored through the visual expression of the human psyche. I suspected even then that the intellect had little influence or understanding of the forces that shape our human consciousness, and have always sought to uncover these great mysteries in the freedom of the "undirected drawing", now referred to as "right brain" art. This method has resulted in an evolving family of recurring images that I believe spring from the heart of my nature, an axis that transcends the purely idiosyncratic and personal, emerging through our shared capacity for direct understanding of the foundations of life,and therefore symbolizing universal "facts" that can be understood but not explained. Art infused with such love can enflame the heart and awaken us to life." -Doug Gilbert 2005 Born 1949, New York City
1969 Group Show, Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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