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Donald Doe is an American artist born in Ohio, who goes by the name Don Doe. He went to the Cleveland Institute of Art, and received his Masters in Fine Arts in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art.〔 Some of his peers included artists, Lisa Yuskavage,〔 Richard Philips, Sean Landers, and John Currin.〔 To further his abilities to work with sculpture Doe worked as an Assistant Process Engineer at Tallix Art Foundry in Beacon, New York.〔 He worked here for two and a half years, and met his future wife there.〔 After receiving a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1991, Doe moved to Brooklyn's rich artistic culture.〔 He has worked as an illustrator for The New Yorker as well as other journals. He has also held art professor positions teaching sculpture, 3d design, and rendering at St. John's University and the New York School of Interior Design.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=MoMa PS 1 website )〕 Particular pieces of his work are owned by the Museum of Modern Art,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=MoMa Collection Website )〕 The Chicago Institute of Art,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Art Institute of Chicago )〕 Cornell University,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Cornell University )〕 among others. ==Early work== His paintings began as ink brush drawings with a focus on an artist and the visual embodiment of his personal difficulties. Visual examples include the artist's muse, dealer, studio assistance, and an over abundance of canvases. This series of watercolors focuses on male figures alongside these visuals of artistic difficulties. Other pieces during these times depict male figures being engulfed in floods, sometimes on top of the remains of their former lives; cars or houses.〔 There is a collection of these works in the Deutsche Bank New York City, as well as the Piergoi Flat Files〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Pierogi website )〕 in Brooklyn. Alongside Doe’s collection are a number of other artists represented by the Deutsche Bank New York that share his artistic strategies. These artists included, but are not limited to, Nina Bovasso, Tom Burckhardt, Ken Butler, Marc Dean Veca, Tim Maul, and Charles Spurrier.〔 Doe's work evolved into the focus of the female body. In an interview by Pierogi, Don Doe explores his thoughts on the transition into a new set of works; titled Scopophilia.〔 These works depicted men taking photos of women in various poses. “I have another series of a solitary male utilizing a camera possibly as a voyeuristic device preparing to either document his female subject or keep a distance from her, a very open ended series without an outcome, but full of noir. I am working on two other series about pissing in public and another about gun hobbyists in the woods. So I guess the men illustrate a problematizing of the male gaze, and other blurred distinctions between life and the authoritative nudes of the masters, that an eventual instillation will resolve.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Pierogi website )〕 The male and female figures play into the viewer's understanding of social reality, as well as the classical masters who also painted nude figures. This is further explored in an interview of a 2003 show that Don Doe partook in. This review in the New York Times by Ken Johnson briefly goes over the way Doe's work interacts with mythology and male desire. “With loaded brushes on medium-size canvases, Mr. Doe paints heated close-ups of beautiful nude or partly exposed women. Lurking in the background of each is a man--or, in one case, a woman--with a camera. Each picture updates an ancient myth: the Expulsion, Leda and the Swan, Echo and Narcissus. But what is most immediately at stake is the connection between a psychology of voyeurism, exhibitionism and shame on the one hand, and the urgent sensuality of painting on the other. For all its material generosity, however, a certain stiff and laborious quality in his painting undermines the effect.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=New York Times )〕 The works mentioned here differ greatly from the previous watercolors, showing his diverse material. In an article published by Deutsche Bank there is an exploration on Doe’s variety of work. “Doe is concerned in maintaining a balance in which humorous commentary and the artistically self-referential, narcissism and melancholy are not locked into competition with one another, but remain in a state of suspension.” 〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Deutsche Bank website )〕 This state of suspension is an essential aspect to Don Doe’s work. The paintings are not meant to be entirely humorous, which is why they are placed comfortably alongside the narcissistic and melancholy themes of the work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald Gerrard Doe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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