Douglas Higgins will be showing new paintings at Greene Contemporary in March, 2007. A preview for the exhibition will be held on Friday, March 2 from 6 to 9 pm. The show will continue Saturday, March 3 through Saturday, March 31. The gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday 10 to 6 PM.
Margaret Sheffield writing about Higgins work for his exhibition "Masters of Contemporary Drawing" in Richmond, Virginia, said the "magic of his work is that he brings to visual life the many symbolic systems - Etruscan, Classical, Christian and Modern - and floats them in a dynamic space as interrelated rhythms and symbols." For him "the canvas or paper is both a metaphor and a surrogate for a wall, " wrote Gerald Silk for Arts Magazine.
Douglas (Doug) Higgins hails from Lexington, Virginia a town that is the birthplace of Cy Twombly with whom Higgins shares a great affinity and a friendship. In 1984, he moved to New York. In 1985, he was included in "The Classic Tradition" a group show at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. His work was chosen by curator Graham Beal for the "Second Sight Biennial IV" for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1986. His work was selected along with the work of Siah Armajani, Roger Brown, Ann McCoy, Pat Steir and Mark Tansey. In his artist statement for that exhibition Higgins wrote "Central to my work since 1978, has been an involvement with the ability of graphic images, icons and symbols to portray culture as a continuity where past and present are overlapping, fused and simultaneous."
Higgins work can be found in private, corporate and museum collections in California, Florida, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Texas and Virginia. He has exhibited his work in Italy and Germany as well as California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Virginia and in Florida.
Higgins received his BFA and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Graphic and Interactive Communication at the Ringling School of Art & Design since 1991. He has also taught as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Graphic Design at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. In 1998, he received a fellowship to study the letter form structures of early Greek inscriptions at the Epigraphic Museum and Agora Museum in Athens.
Higgins lives and works in Sarasota and is represented by Greene Contemporary.