Bob Doucette

About the artist

Bob Doucette’s whimsical and highly saturated paintings come from the world of dreams. Sometimes bordering on surreal, his imagery is a product of a decade of theater work, puppetry and twenty-five years in the world of animation. As an animation director he was responsible for many well known animated children’s programs for PBS including, Chloe’s Closet, Dive Olly Dive and Clifford’s Puppy Days. He started in animation at Warner Bros. and was involved with many classics like Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. His independently animated films won him many prestigious awards and honors and his MFA thesis film Pink Triangle, the first animated film to depict the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis, is in the permanent collection at the New York Public Library.

As an art doll maker Bob has been in galleries since the early 90s. His Ben Franklin doll, created for the White House Christmas tree in 1999, is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. Many of his art dolls are in the private collection of Demi Moore and have been featured in books, magazines articles and TV programs. 

Bob earned a BFA at Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA at CalARTS and studied both illustration and animation. He was born in Waterville Maine and at present lives in Peoria with his husband Tom.

Artwork Themes & Subject Matter

The internet has broken open a pandora’s box of information that has been laid bare for all to consume. For a visual artist it is a treasure trove of imagery from art history to modern pop culture that dazzles the mind. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of (nightmares too) and Bob Doucette likes to cull his favorite shapes and colors together in a hodgepodge of imagery and then systematically organize “like” things and discard dissimilar things into a cohesive design to tell his story.

Press

Bob Doucette’s paintings have been featured in notable magazine including Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Miroir, Arabella, Magazine Tattoo

Upcoming Exhibitions

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Education

1989 Motion Graphics MFA, California institute of the Arts, California, United States

1984 Illustration/Animation BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, United States

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

The Art of Bob Doucette, Lewis Galleries, Simi Valley, CA. United States (Annual since 2015)

2020

Bingeworld, Exhibit A, Peoria, Illinois, United States

Finding Bliss, Exhibit A, Peoria, Illinois, United States

2019

Reach For the Stars, Curly Tale Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois, United States

2018

Cri De Coeur, Bash Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV. United States

Tales From Dystopia, The Stranger Factory, Alburquerque, NM. United States

Prone to Exaggeration, The Dark Art Emporium, Long Beach, CA. United States

2017

Astrologica, Alexi Era Gallery, Eugene OR. United States

2015

Beyond Wonderland, Heart & Soul Gallery, Culver City, CA. United States

Decadence II, Pop Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. United States

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Year of the Dragon, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA. United States

See also

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Victor Wang

2023

First Annual Postcard Show, Brassworks, Portland, OR. United States

The Midnight Garden, Inverarity Gallery, Banff, Scotland.

Loteria IX, Cactus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States

No Place Like, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA. United States

2022

Rebirth, Curio Gallery, Caparica, Portugal

Tiny Terrors, The Dark Arts Emporium, Long Beach, CA. United States

Keep Contemporary, The New Vanguard Gallery, Santa Fe, United States

Surreal Salon, BRG Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA. United States

2019

Fridrucha, La Bodega Gallery, San Diego, CA. United States