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Don Suggs is an American artist (born March 16, 1945) based in Los Angeles, California. Described as polymorphic and stylistically variable,[1] his oeuvre includes paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures and is recognized for its use of color.
Don Suggs was born in Fort Worth, Texas and grew up in San Diego. He received a B.A. in 1969 from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), having studied psychology, film, and art. He received both an M.A. in 1971 and an M.F.A. in 1972 from UCLA. Suggs taught drawing, painting, sculpture and color theory from 1972-1984 at Florida State University at Tallahassee, Franconia College in New Hampshire, University of Southern California, and Otis Art Institute. Since 1983 he has been teaching painting and drawing at UCLA. Over the years, he has been co-editor with Paul Vangelisti of several non-profit art and literature publications: Boxcar, Forehead, and Ribot. He has published four art and poetry books, collaborating with Paul Vangelisti and Martha Ronk. Suggs currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Suggs' work During his career, Suggs has worked in three- to five-year periods on a particular idea and with specific media. He has followed his varied aesthetic interests in a methodical way and is thus portrayed as an artist’s artist.[2] Illustrating the continuity of a rigorous aesthetic investigation,[3] Suggs’ major bodies of work include Passions, Autochthonous Views, Proprietary Views, Portraits, Old Genres, Heuristic Paintings, Tondototems, Paint Ons and Feastpoles. Renown for his painting, Suggs’ practice in this medium is said to range from geometric abstraction to abstract expressionism to conceptualism to photorealism to pop art.[4] Suggs has been showing with LA Louver gallery in Venice, California since 1977. Awards Suggs has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1973 and 1991). Exhibitions Since 1970, Suggs’ works have been included in dozens of group exhibitions across the United States. He has been reviewed in numerous publications including Artforum, Art in America, Artweek, Frieze, LACMA publications, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Modern Painters, and Smithsonian magazine. Don Suggs’ solo exhibitions include: 2007 Don Suggs: Concentric, LA Louver, Venice, CA Exhibition page 2007 Don Suggs: One Man Group Show, curated by Meg Linton at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA Exhibition page 2005 Don Suggs, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (traveling) 2004 Pacifiers and Tondo Studies, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Paintings and Feastpoles, College of Creative Studies, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA Compound Photographs, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997 Hexane Photographs, LA Louver, Venice, CA 1993 Old Genres - Photoworks, LA Louver, Venice, CA 1989 Clearing, drawing installation at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Don Suggs, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 Painting from 1982-84, LA Louver, Venice, CA Don Suggs: Paintings, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA 1982 Don Suggs, LA Louver, Venice, CA Night Studies, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA 1977 Don Suggs, LA Louver, Venice, CA Public Collections * Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Footnotes 1. ^ Doug Harvey. "Don Suggs' Uncertainty Principle: We Are Experiencing Interference" Don Suggs: One Man Group Show (Los Angeles, CA: Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2007): 13. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ ", Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ==--==--==
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