Doug Argue

Doug Argue "Rhythm and Blues"
2024 | oil on canvas | $12,000.00
image: 27 x 38.25" | frame: 28 x 39.25"

Doug Argue "Safe Distance"
2024 | oil on canvas | $3,000.00
image: 12.5 x 23.25" | frame: 13.25 x 24.25

Doug Argue "Moving On"
2024 | oil on canvas | $3,000.00
image: 12.5 x 21.75" | frame: 13.25 x 22.5"

Doug Argue "Innocence"
2024 | oil on canvas | $3,000.00
image: 12 x 20.75" | frame: 12.75 x 21.5"

Doug Argue "Arise and Go"
2024 | oil on canvas | $3,000.00
image: 12.75 x 22" | frame: 13.5 x 22.75"

Doug Argue "Without Words"
2024 | oil on canvas | $1,600.00
image: 9 x 12" | frame: 10" x 13"

Doug Argue "A Closer Look"
2024 | oil on canvas | $1,600.00
image: 8.75 x 12.25" | frame: 9.5 x 13"

Doug Argue "Minute By Minute"
2024 | oil on canvas | $3,000.00
image: 12.25 x 22.5" | frame: 13 x 23.25"

Doug Argue "Without Sound"
2024 | oil on canvas | $3,000.00
image: 12.5 x 20.25" | frame: 13.25 x 24"

Doug Argue "Sea Wind"
2024 | oil on canvas | $1,600.00
image: 8.5 x 12.25" | frame: 9.5 x 13.25"

Doug Argue "Follow The Leader"
2024 | oil on canvas | $2,000.00
image: 12 x 16" | frame: 12.75 x 16.75"

Doug Argue "New Song"
2020 | oil on canvas | $3,000.00
image: 17 x 20" | frame: 17.75 x 20.75"

Doug Argue "Untitled"
1996 | ink on paper | $4,500.00
image: 38 x 33” | unframed

Doug Argue "Untitled"
2023 | oil, charcoal, & inkjet on canvas | $2,500.00
image: 12 x 12" | unframed

Doug Argue "Open Book"
2023 | oil & inkjet on canvas | $6,500.00
image: 20 x 38" | unframed

Doug Argue "Untitled (Portrait)"
2003 | watercolor on paper | $4,500.00
image: 43.75 x 30" | unframed

Doug Argue "Untitled (Portrait)"
2003 | monoprint | $2,400.00
image: 20 x 15.75" | frame: 28.75 x 25.25"

Doug Argue "Portrait Blue and Brown"
2004 | oil on canvas | $1,200.00
image: 7 x 5" | frame: 8 x 6"

Doug Argue "Portrait Light Green"
2004 | oil on canvas | $1,200.00
image: 7 x 5" | frame: 8 x 6"

Doug Argue "Untitled (Portrait)"
2004 | casein on canvas | $1,600.00
image: 11.75 x 8.75" | frame: 12.75 x 9.75"

Doug Argue "Untitled"
2021 | gouache on paper | $4,500.00
image: 30 x 42” | unframed

Doug Argue "Untitled"
2019 | oil on canvas | $3,000.00 image: 19 x 24" | frame: 20 x 25"

Doug Argue "Strapless Black Dresses"
2013 | gouache on paper | $4,500.00
image: 30.25 x 44" | unframed

Doug Argue "Red Pepper Blues"
2015 | gouache on panel | $12,00.00
image: 30 x 40" | frame: 30.75 x 40.75"

Doug Argue "Untitled"
2020 | gouache on paper | $1,500.00
image: 22.75 x 30” | unframed

Doug Argue "Two Tires"
1993 | gouache on paper | $1,200.00
image: 9.5 x 13.5" | unframed

Doug Argue "Screen Shot 12"
2020 | gouache on paper | $2,500.00
image: 22.75 x 30" | unframed

Doug Argue "Screen Shot 14"
2020 | gouache on paper | $2,500.00
image: 22.75 x 30" | unframed

Doug Argue "Screen Shot 9"
2020 | gouache on paper | $2,500.00
image: 22.75 x 30" | unframed

Doug Argue "Untitled" 7/20
2003 | lithograph | $1,500.00
image: 39.75 x 28” | unframed

Doug Argue "Untitled" 11/15
2003 | lithograph | $1,500.00
image: 40 x 28” | unframed

Doug Argue "Untitled" 13/29
2003 | lithograph | $1,500.00
image: 39.5 x 28.25” | unframed

Doug Argue "Leaves" 7/16
2003 | lithograph | $1,500.00
image: 39.25 x 28" | unframed

Doug Argue "Untitled"
1992 | gouache on paper | $2,500.00
image: 16.75 x 22.5” | unframed

Doug Argue "Untitled"
1991 | watercolor on paper | $2,500.00
image: 18 x 25.75” | unframed

Doug Argue "Nicollet Mall"
1983 | pencil, gesso, watercolor on paper | $1,200.00
image: 11.5 x 14.5" | frame: 15 x 17.25"

Doug Argue "Nicollet Mall 2"
1983 | pencil, gesso, watercolor on paper | $1,200.00
image: 11.5 x 14.5" | frame: 14.5 x 16.75"

New York City-based artist Doug Argue’s forty-year painting career has culminated in a well-known and recognizable body of work that ranges from pure abstraction to representation.

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Argue’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including at Edelman Arts and Haunch of Venison in New York and the Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica. Two of his new monumental paintings commissioned for the lobby of One World Trade Center in Manhattan are now on display. His work is in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, Weisman Art Museum, and numerous other museums, corporate and private collections.

Image Credit: Cristina Arza

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Doug Argue: Letters to the Future, survey, exhibition, and curation by Elizabeth Armstrong,

Weisman Art Museum, Saint Paul, MN

2022 Doug Argue: There is No Happiness Like Mine, Piermarq*, Surry Hills, Australia

Sydney Contemporary, Darlinghurst, Australia

The Life Aquatic. Oceanic Visions by Doug Argue, collaboration with German Consulate, 1014 – Space for Ideas, New York, NY

2019 Kovacek Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2018 Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Waterhouse and Dodd, New York, NY

2015 Scattered Rhymes, Venice Biennale, Collateral Exhibition, Venice, Italy

2013 Doug Argue, Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia

Awards

2009 London International Creative Competition | Artist of the Year Review

2001 Golden Family Foundation

1997 Rome Prize Fellow catalogue

1995 Pollock- Krasner Foundation

Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship

1994 Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunities Grant

1992 McKnight Foundation Fellowship

1991 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship

1990 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant

1988 Bush Foundation Fellowship

1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1986 McKnight Foundation fellowship

1984 Jerome Foundation Fellowship

Artist Statement

There are many different histories in the world, in both art and politics, and we often see things in the current moment, yet have no idea what lies beneath. One language is always turning into another, one generation is always rising and another falling, there is no still moment. I am trying to express this flux—this constant shifting of one thing over another, like a veil over the moment itself.

Doug Argue

Image Credit: Cristina Arza

Gallery Hours

Groveland Gallery