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Fall/Winter 2000 Volume I Issue I

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Doug Malone was born in New York in 1970.  He was educated at the College of William & Mary, the Corcoran School of Art, and Academy of Art College.

He is currently a professional artist living in San Francisco;  he also teaches anatomy and figure drawing.

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Doug Malone

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"My work as a figurative painter arises from a deep and abiding sense of isolation and detachment. All human beings, to some degree, experience such feelings; they are universal.  In The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm states that Man's "awareness of himself as a separate entity. . . the awareness of his aloneness and separateness. . . makes his separate, disunited existence an unbearable prison." Fromm asserts that the experience of separateness is ultimately the cause of all anxiety, and that humankind "of all ages and cultures is confronted with one and the same question: the question of how to overcome separateness, how to achieve union, how to transcend one's individual life and find at-onement."  I strive to explore these issues through my figurative paintings.

In the painting process itself, however, my primary concern is with technical and formal issues such as draughtsmanship, palette, spatial context, composition, etc. Each painting usually undergoes extensive transformation during the course of its creation until all the problems which arise are finally resolved."

Also by Doug Malone:

Head Study

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Procession II