DANIEL DOUKE

BORN:1943 in Los Angeles
              Resides in Pasadena, California

EDUCATION:
California State University, Los Angeles: Master of Arts
California State University, Los Angeles: Bachelor of Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007    OK Harris Works of Art, New York
2006    Endless Instant: A Survey, Luckman Gallery, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles
             Art Gallery, Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, California
2005    Adler & Co., San Francisco
             Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
             Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, California
2003    OK Harris Works of Art, New York
2002    Aalto Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
             Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2000    Ikon Ltd. Fine Art, Santa Monica, California
1999    OK Harris Works of Art, New York
1998    Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1997    OK Harris Works of Art, New York
             Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1994    Reed Whipple Cultural Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
             Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1993    Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
             OK Harris Works of Art, New York
1991    Art Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California
             Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences, Santa Monica, California
             Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1989    Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
             Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
             OK Harris Works of Art, New York
             Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1988    Brandstater Gallery, Loma Linda University, Riverside, California
             OK South, South Miami, Florida
1987    Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
             OK Harris Works of Art, New York
             Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1985    OK Harris Works of Art, New York
             Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1984    Acme Art, San Francisco
             Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California
1983    OK Harris Works of Art, New York
             Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1982    Dobrick Gallery, Chicago
1981    OK Harris Works of Art, New York
             Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1980    Dobrick Gallery, Chicago
             Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1979    OK Harris Works of Art, New York 
1978    Dobrick Gallery, Chicago
1977    University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills
1976    Dobrick Gallery, Chicago
1975    Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, California
             Warren Benedek Gallery, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2007    Introductions II,  Stremmel Gallery,  Reno, Nevada
2006    Kaz Oshiro/Dan Douke, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2005    Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles
              Art of the Flower, The Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, California
2004    Opening Exhibition, Mendenhal Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, California
              Seeing Is Believing: American Trompe l’oeil, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
              Contemporary American Realism VII, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2003    Art of the Flower, Art Placement International, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., New York
              Art & Affinities, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
              Contemporary American Realism VI, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
              A Good Impression: A Century of Printmaking in San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
2002    Contemporary Realism V, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2000    Flight, The Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, California
1998     Eighth Biennial Art Auction, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, California
              Still Life Painting Today, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
              Illusion: Trompe l’oeil and Slight of Hand, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California
1997     West Coast Painting and Sculpture, Oceanside Art Museum, Oceanside, California
              Airbrush: Contemporary Directions, Art Gallery, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, California
1995     Between the Lines, Breeden Gallery, Orange, California
1994     Visual Fictions, Sensory Deceits: A Brief History of Trompe l’oeil, Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, Fresno, California
1993     Airbrush in Painting and Illustration, Art Gallery, Cypress College, Cypress, California
1992     Masks, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
              The Reality of Illusion, Contemporary Crafts Association, Portland, Oregon
              The Articulated Thumbprint, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
1991     A Small Bite of the Big Apple: Contemporary Art from OK Harris, Bobbitt Visual Arts Center, Albion College, Albion, Michigan
1990     California Still Life, University Art Gallery, California State University East Bay, Hayward
1989     The Corrugated Show, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California
              Landscape Visions, Office of the Chancellor, California State University, Long Beach
              Boite Alerte, Renee Fotouhi Fine Art Ltd., New York
1988     Tortue is O.K., Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California
              Trompe l'oeil: The Magic of Deception, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California
1987-8 Don't Knock Wood, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1987     The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected by Ivan Karp, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky
              Convincing Illusions, Louis Meisel Gallery, New York
1986-7 A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
1986     California Contemporary: Works from the Security Pacific Collection, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California
              Art and Illusion, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
              Modern Still Life and Trompe l'oeil Paintings, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, California
              Kindred Spirits, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
1985     Trompe l'oeil, Brenda Kroos Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
              Contemporary American Painting from Kentucky Collections, Norton Center for the Arts, Danville, Kentucky
              The Real Thing, North Miami Museum and Art Center, North Miami, Florida
1984-5 New Realism, Robert L. Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1984     Games of Deception: When Nothing Is As It Appears, Artisan Space, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
              Olympiad: Summer 1984, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
              Illusions, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
1983-5 Contemporary Trompe l’oeil Painting and Sculpture (traveling exhibition), Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho 
1983-4 California Contemporary Artists 16, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California
1983     Educating Artists: Fine Arts at Art Center 1982-83, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
              Material Illusions/Unlikely Materials, Taft Museum, Cincinnati
              Trompe l'oeil: Deceiver of the Eye, Lyon Gallery, Redlands, California
1982     Drawings by Painters, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California; Mandeville Art Center,
                             University of California, San Diego; Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
              L.A. Art: An Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan;
                             Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
1981     Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1980     Illusionism, OK Harris West, Scottsdale, Arizona
              Daniel Douke, Jack Radetsky, Peter Saari, Gallery Yves Arman, New York
              The Reality of Illusion (traveling exhibition), Denver Art Museum, Denver
1979     Illusion and Material, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey
1978     The Subject Is the Object, Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
              New Realism: 8 California Painters, Nevada Art Museum, Reno
              Realist Painters, Los Angeles, ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles
1977     100+ Current Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1976     Los Angeles, Penthouse Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974     New Realism Revisited, University Art Gallery, New York State University, Potsdam; Nicholas Treadwell Galleries, London
1973     Painting, James D. Phelan Awards, Art Special Gallery, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS:

2006     Individual Artists Grant, Pasadena Arts & Cultural Commission, Pasadena, CA
2000     Grant for Creative Leave, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1986     Grant for Creative Leave, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1982     National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Program
1973     James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

American Council of Education, Washington, D.C.
American Friends of the Israel Museum, New York
AVCO Financial Services, Irvine, California
First Illinois State Bank, Chicago
H.C. Companies, Denver
Henry Heuser, Louisville, Kentucky
Loyola Law School, Loyola, California
Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles
Martin Margulies, Coconut Grove, Florida
Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Dr. Richard and Lou Newquist, Santa Ana, California
Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica, California
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
San Francisco Sentry Investment Group, San Francisco
Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles
Southland Corporation, Dallas
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
University-Student Union, California State University, Los Angeles

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Books & Catalogues
Armstrong, Richard. Drawings by Painters. Exhibition catalogue. Long Beach, California: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1982.
Auping, Michael. Daniel Douke. Exhibition catalogue. Long Beach, California: Long Beach City College, 1977.
Ballatore, Sandy. The Duplicate Object. Exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1980.
Battcock, Gregory. Super Realism: A Critical Anthology. New York: Dutton, 1975.
Benton, Stephen A. Art and Illusion. Exhibition catalogue. Anchorage, Alaska: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 1986.
Brewer, Donald. The Reality of Illusion. Exhibition catalogue. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1980.
Bro, Lu. Figure & Form, Vol. I. Madison, Wisconsin: WCB Brown & Benchmark, 1992.
Chambers, Karen S. Trompe l'oeil at Home. New York: Rizzoli, 1991.
Hallenberg, Heather. Material Illusion/Unlikely Material. Exhibition catalogue. Cincinnati: Taft Museum, 1983.
James, George R. California White Paper Painters 1930s-1970s. Exhibition catalogue. Fullerton, California: Art Gallery, California State University, 1976.
Kranz, Les. American Artists. Chicago: Kranz Publishing, 1984.
Kultermann, Udo. Neue Formen des Bildes. Tuebingen, Germany: Wasmuth, 1976.
Lloyd, Norman. Tromp l'oeil: The Magic of Deception. Exhibition catalogue. Fullerton, California: Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1988.
Polsky, Richard. Art Market Guide: Contemporary American Art. San Francisco: Marlitt Press, 1998.
Smith, Bradley. Erotic Art of the Masters. Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1974.
Tuchman, Maurice, and Joseph Campbell. Masquerade. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.
Ward, John L. American Realist Painting: 1945-1980. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1989.

Periodicals & Texts
Andrews, Collman. “Art of the State: California.” New West 6, no. 1 (January 1981): 54-59.
Artner, Alan G. “Art: Daniel Douke.” Chicago Tribune (April 28, 1978) Sec. 3: 11.
Donohue, Marlena. “The Galleries: Santa Monica.” Los Angeles Times (March 3, 1989). 
Frackman, Noel. “Art Review in New York.” Arts Magazine 49, no. 9 (May 1975): 11-12.
Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week.” L.A. Weekly (November 24-30, 2001): 147.
Glasgow, Lukman. “Five Realists.” Artweek 7, no. 3 (May 1975): 11-12.
Haydon, Harold. “Galleries.” Chicago Sun Times (July 30, 1982): 61.
Knight, Christopher. “Reviews.” Artforum 28, no. 9 (May 1980): 85.
Laurence, Michael. “Reviews: Daniel Douke at Tortue.” Art in America (July 1987): 133.
Pagel, David. “Art Reviews: A Decisive Collection That’s The Picture of Ease.” Los Angeles Times (October 17, 1997): F30.
Piccalo, Gina, and Louise Roug. “Pop Art and Magic.” Los Angeles Times (February 7, 2002): E2.
Pincus, Robert. “Oceanside Museum Officially Opens Its Walls.” The San Diego Union Tribune (October 3, 1997). 
Schuize, Franz. “The New Realism, a Tantalizing Paradox.” Chicago Daily News (May 22, 1976): 14.
Seldis, Henry J. “Watercolors at Cal State Fullerton.” Los Angeles Times (May 10, 1976) Sec. 4: 1, 4.
Stevens, Elizabeth. “Feeding and Flexing Your Neuroses in SoHo, or Browsing through a Graffiti Conversation.” Baltimore Sun (February 6, 1981).
Tucker, Annie. “On Exhibit: Package Deal: The Art of Dan Douke.” Juxtapoz (March/April 2001): 94.
Wilson, William. “Annual Show in Laguna.” Los Angeles Times (July 17, 1972): 9.
1987). 
Wortz, Melinda. “Trompe l’Audience.” Art News 79, no. 2 (February 1980): 183-185.

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