Doug Hamilton

  • ARTIST'S STATEMENT:  "My work in sculpture and painting should be called extraction rather than abstraction. I extract little bits of what I see or experience and then look for their elemental relationships.  Visual expression is pared down to a form or a geometry that simplifies those relationships and their tensions. This whole process is similar to channeling poetic expression into the sonnet form.  There is an order in this geometric abstraction that seems to drive me. Photography serves as a journal of my brain’s reaction to what is going on in front of my eyes."

  • BIOGRAPHY: Doug Hamilton is a native of Illinois and was a Texan from 1971 to 2012. He now practices in Springville, Utah.

  • SELECTED STUDIES: Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX; Eve Myles, Houston, TX

  • SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

    • 2024, 2022 – Springville Museum of Fine Art “Spiritual and Religious Art” [annual juried show] Springville UT

    • 2024 - Freedom Festival Art Exhibit [juried show], Provo UT

    • 2024 - Brown Gallery, Utah Valley Artists Guild group show, Springville UT

    • 2024 - Covey Center for the Arts “Spring Salon” [annual juried show], Provo UT

    • 2024, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2015 - Springville Museum of Fine Art “Spring Salon” [annual juried show], Springville UT

    • 2009 - Galleria Lazzara, Houston TX - solo exhibition

    • 2008 - Artopia, Houston TX, sponsored and curated by Houston Press

    • 2004 - One Allen Center Art, Houston TX - Solo exhibition

    • 2000 - ArtoberFest sponsored and juried by Art League of Galveston, Galveston TX

  • SELECTED CORPORATE OR INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS:

    • Springville Public Library, Springville UT

    • Encino Chemical Company, Inc., Houston TX

    • Gulf United Technologies, Inc., Missouri City TX

  • SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

    • Drs Kenneth E. and Julie E. Kendall, Voorhees NJ, acquired “Sydney II” and licensed the image to use as cover-art on Kendall & Kendall, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN, Prentice Hall (6th edition, 2004)

    • Dr. & Mrs. Chuck Allison, Urbana IL, acquired “Feather Moon” and licensed the image to use as cover-art on Allison, FOUNDATION OF COMPUTING, Fresh Sources, Inc., 2022

  • BIBLIOGRAPHY:

    • Illustration: “Feather Moon” appears as cover art on Allison, FOUNDATION OF COMPUTING, Fresh Sources, Inc., 2022

    • Illustration: “Intervention”, “Circumstantial Evidence”, and “Voir Dire” appear as cover art for brochures advertising The University of Texas Continuing Legal Education conferences.

    •  Grant, Daniel, SELLING ART WITHOUT GALLERIES: TOWARD MAKING A LIVING FROM YOUR ART, (Allworth Press, 2006)

    •  Grant, Daniel, "Benefits and Risks of Selling Artwork Online", SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, June, 2005.

    •  Illustration: Sydney II appears as cover-art on Kendall & Kendall, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN, Prentice Hall (6th edition, 2004)

    •  Illustration: PEN, University of Utah Press (photograph illustrating story)