| Artist | Bob Doucette | Resides | United States |
| Website | bobdoucette.com | Medium | Acrylic Clay |
| Print Shop | bobdoucette.com/link | [email protected] | |
| Representing Gallery | Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco, CA. USA Cactus Gallery LA Los Angeles, CA. USA Inverarity Gallery Curio Art Gallery Lancaster, PA. USA Lewis Galleries Simi Valley, CA. USA Exhibit A Gallery Los Angeles, CA. USA | Themes | Finding Bliss Animal Spirit guides Love Conquers All Gay Identity Spirituality Finding Magic Environmental The Natural World |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Press | bobdoucette.com/about |
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
| When | Exhibition | Gallery |
| January 2024 | Group exhibition: “Boreal” | Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco, CA. USA |
| February 2024 | Group exhibition: “Year of the Dragon” | Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco, CA. USA |
| March 2024 | Group exhibition: “Precious Metal” | Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco, CA. USA |
| April 2024 | Group exhibition: “Let Them Eat Cake” | Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco, CA. USA |
| May 2024 | Group exhibition: “Nine Lives” | Cactus Gallery LA Los Angeles, CA. USA |
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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
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
