Guilty

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Guilty by Douglas Alvarez

Acrylic on Panel, 5″ x 7″ x 7/8″

Current Exhibition at Flower Pepper Gallery: Melody – 1st Online Art Exhibition, Launches on Cyber Monday 2017

Previous Exhibitions at Flower Pepper Gallery:
- 5th Year Anniversary Show from December 10th to 27th, 2016
- Here Comes Summer from June 4th to July 5th, 2016
- Summer Flies from June 28th to August 1st, 2014
- The Season of Spring from March 1st to April 4th, 2014

Artist Biography:
Douglas Alvarez addresses the beauty of urban sprawl with its strip malls, decaying infrastructure, and the role humans play visibly or invisibly in this environment. He is able to garner a feeling of nostalgia and complexity of emotion in the simplest of elements and spaces. Douglas employs a number of techniques to achieve his desired result. Viscous paint applications through palate knife are reminiscent of textural walls, while his brush application delineates the fine detail of a glazed donut or the abstract scrawls on a piece of line graph paper. The color palette Alvarez uses is inspired by muted tints of institutional environments. Beyond the canvas, Douglas recently extended to three-dimensional sculptural reliefs, interactive installations and photography. 

Douglas Alvarez was born in Los Angeles to a father who is a minister and a mother who was a Colorado cattle rancher’s daughter. He is a product of a typical suburban upbringing, a childhood filled with skateboarding, arcade games and junk food. Alvarez was accepted to a mediocre law school but pursued his passion for art instead, receiving dual degrees from California State University, Northridge in Art and Political Science. Douglas has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally.

Education:
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. 05/05
California State University, Northridge, CA. B.A. Degree – Art & Political Science, 12/99

Interview with We Choose Art: http://wechooseart.com/douglas-alvarez/

Douglas Alvarez – An Artist Portrait by Shannon: https://vimeo.com/53059026

Artist Website: http://douglasalvarez.com

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