Doug Baulos
Above: Listen to an 8-minute interview with Doug, who explains why he drew the Indigo Bunting for his Featured Artist image in the mural. Consider, as you listen, how this bird connects with Doug’s unique creative sanctuary.
Selected Museum/University collections
The Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York
The J.P. Getty Museum and Research Institute. Los Angeles, California
The Birmingham Museum of Art. Birmingham, Alabama
The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, San Francisco, California
The National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Children’s Hospital. Birmingham, Alabama
Johnson & Johnson. New York, New York
Recent Exhibitions
2020 Garden Seeds, XIII Idle Festival del Libre d’Artista I la Peitita Edicio, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Blended, Kyoto Shibori Museum, curated by Soude Dadras, Kyoto Japan
2020 The Sky is a Circle, Eastern Shore Arts Center, Fairhope AL (solo)
2020 The Contemplation of Suchness, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden AL (solo)
2020 Queer Fox on Bluff Precipice, Tatter Blue Textile Library, Brooklyn NY (solo)
2019 Root, Branch & Star, Shelby County Art Museum, Colombiana AL (solo)
2018 Alabama Reckoner, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan AL (solo)
2018 From Which Stars Have We Fallen, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah KY (solo)
2018 Night after Night O Moon, Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur AL (solo)
Wounded Deer
Doug’s Drawing and Poem for his Featured Artist Tile
Seem
Seam
Indigo Bunting
Jar of wishbones
A ghost in the attic
Night’s hand on your shoulder leaving at night
I grew up hiding in the dark woods, that’s who I always was
Doug Baulos, September 2020
Pulse
Research/Teaching Interests
Book & Paper Arts
The History of Scientific Art & Illustration esp. Chemistry and Biology
The Biology of Seeing
Dictionary/ Language Extinction
Drawing
Visual Ecology
Vitriol Stars
In His Own Words…
Although I work with the feelings of loss, mortality, and the power and delicate nature of memory, my work is a reflection of my attempt to live my life in fragile exultation. Most of my recent work reflects a multitude of interests including grief and mortality, nesting and mending, meditation, medical illustration and procedures, and spirituality. I merge the abstraction of narrative with the physicality of objects. I’m interested in forms and images that accompany the body and in the traces the body leaves: a bed, a nest, a webs, decay and shadows. My work is about exploring where these spaces are suspended for observation and meet at a crossroads between the temporal (fleeting) and concrete (lasting).
Retired and created objects are redeployed as agent of memory that can evoke and reflect on the history of private lives – worn and battered, certain found object evoke empathy. Like a dog without a tail we notice an object’s history and pluck as survivor. Recently I’m exploring the idea of simultaneously linking the application of media and surface with inner experience, seeking to create books and sculptures that present themselves as humble objects that open into vast, imaginative space for the reader.
Little Forest
Dharma Hands