August 2023: Doug Trump
“A painter might simply mine his or her given vantage point, grateful to be making art. Paintings are fixed without hindrance upon their bearings, outside of the verbal, mysterious, enacted exactly. The issue for the artist is to work.” May 2023
Doug Trump lives and works in Marlboro, VT. Born near Rochester, NY, 1950. Summers spent in Crown Point, IN, 1956-1968. Language study in Brittany, France, summer 1966. Public school education, Rochelle Park / Hackensack, NJ, 1956-1968. University of Pennsylvania, BA in Religious Thought, 1972. Married, moved to Norway, 1972. Visited Edvard Munch Museum in Oslo. Returned to the U.S., 1973. Son born.
Self-identity as a writer of fiction and poetry. Employment next 4 years – teacher creative writing, medical technician, gas station attendant, dairy farm worker, saw mill laborer. Began painting 1976. Employment as Yard Clerk, Boston & Maine Railroad switching yard, East Deerfield, MA, 1977-2012.
Painting Fellowships, Vermont Council on the Arts, 1990, 1992. Regional Selections, 5-artist exhibit, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1990. 5 solo exhibits, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, NY, 1992-2003. Parameters solo exhibit, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, 1995. 5 solo exhibits, Spheris Gallery, NH, VT, NYC, 1999-2009. 3 solo exhibits, Reeves Contemporary, New York, NY, 2004-2008. Exhibits in Atlanta, Santa Fe, Santa Monica, and San Francisco, 2005-2010.
Time spent in western Europe, primarily Holland and France, 2003-2016. Studio built in Marlboro, VT, 2010.
Represented by Cynthia Reeves, Walpole, NH.
