Douglas Breault
We are very excited about featuring Douglas Breault. He works as an interdisciplinary artist using elements of photography, painting, video & sculpture. Doug’s works have been seen at Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA), the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea), the Bristol Art Museum (RI), Amos Eno Gallery (NY). Doug holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, BA in Studio Art from Bridgewater State University and currently works as Exhibitions Director at Gallery 263 in Cambridge MA as well as teaching at Bridgewater State University.
The freedom of misapplication. This reference to Doug’s statement is a notion that really speaks to an important part of Doug’s works. In A Shot in the Dark he blends photographic processes with found printed objects and sculpture, mixed media. The result is a meditative and at times uncomfortable, images that pulled me in closer to discover a personal story of a struggle to retain connectivity amid a variety of influences. I first spotted Doug’s work on Shelter In Place Gallery @shelterinplacegallery and it seems I keep finding my way back to it.
-Steven Duede
Photography — analog and digital — has since become a way for Breault to explore space between presence and absence. A tool to reckon with big questions like how to convey the essence of our loved ones after they’ve passed.
The photographs themselves are slow and deliberate — hours in the darkroom, tinkering, experimenting, remembering and failing to remember, forgetting — shots in the dark. But they also have an air of urgency, a pressing need for you to — look — they call you in to a specific moment, a feeling of nostalgia, a memory.
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A shot in the dark
I freely misapply traditional artistic methods of photography, painting, and sculpture by purposely misaligning materials and connecting collected fragments to question the precarious nature of truth and transformation. Materiality is essential to develop my ideas, subordinating form to process.
I often enlist obliterated images downloaded and printed from the internet, inherited objects, and embrace traditions of painting and photography to build connections between memory and imagination using mimicry and abstraction. I am interested in the limitations of a photograph itself, considering how an image can unfolded and expanded to describe a person or place paradoxically absent.
-Doug Breault
Douglas Breault (b.1990) is an interdisciplinary artist who overlaps elements of photography, painting, sculpture, and video to merge spaces both real and imagined. His work has been included in exhibitions and screenings at various institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA), the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea), Space Place Gallery (Russia), the Bristol Art Museum (RI), the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts (NH), Amos Eno Gallery (NY), and VSOP Projects (NY). Breault has been an artist in residence at MassMoca and AS220, and was awarded the Montague Travel Grant to study in London and Paris in 2017.
Douglas is a professor of art at Babson College, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Bridgewater State University and he has been a guest critic at MassArt, Kansas City Art Institute, Clark University, and the Slade College of Art, among others. Douglas is the Exhibitions Director at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA. He received his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a BA in Studio Art from Bridgewater State University, and he currently divides his time between Boston, MA and Providence, RI.
Douglas Breault