Doug Argue explores infinite time and space in his paintings by fusing abstraction with math, science and the anthropology of language. The results are momentous, ethereal, visceral-bordering on spiritual. Argue embraces the tradition of painting while employing modern concepts of realism, abstraction and expressionism.

Influenced by Tintoretto, along with Einstein and Pythagoras, Argue has spent his career focusing on the formal qualities of painting while schewing classical or traditional subject matter. Using various techniques, including those employed by Renaissance painters, Argue has created conceptual and monumental paintings on tires, books and chickens on a scale traditionally reserved for history painting. His new body of work presents a move toward abstraction while continuing this exploration.

Argue has developed a way of communicating that seems far superior and more universal than traditional language. Through a combination of purpose and chance, genes and language are in a constant state of flux providing almost infinite possibilities of recombination. His work embodies all the questions one might contemplate, and yields all the answers the viewer chooses to see.

Argue's work is represented in numerous public collections including the Walker Art Center, Minnesota Museum for American Art, Weisman Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Argue has also been the recipient of many awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Bush Foundation Fellowship and a Pollock Krasner Grant.

"The meanings I find in life evolve from my actions, from me living my life. I am not trying to adapt myself to a set of rules or a particular philosophy and I approach my paintings in the same way. Each is a survivor of its own odyssey, which gives it a unique history. The scale gives me the space I need to create a record of the changes I make through time, and it helps generate the feeling that the painting extends through time, outside of my peripheral vision and imagination."

- Doug Argue