Douglas Gilbert

Douglas Gilbert
b.1967

Douglas Gilbert is an American artist whose practice centers on mark-making in graphite and charcoal on archival paper. His work develops through dense accumulations of intersecting lines constructed through thousands of deliberate marks rather than through traditional contour or tonal modeling. Gilbert forms interwoven fields of line that generate depth, space, and emotional tension, allowing figures, structures, and architectural forms to emerge from abstraction.

"I create drawings that move between abstraction and representation, composed of thousands of straight lines. Impressions of form and space emerge through the accumulation of marks, which are either highly condensed or loosely dispersed across the page. From a distance, the drawings may appear familiar and identifiable, yet on closer inspection, their imagery dissolves into a chaotic array of individual lines.

Working with graphite and charcoal, I build the drawings through repeated straight marks and shifts in density. Although the finished image is static, the accumulation of lines creates a sense of vibration and movement. The lines also suggest volume, space, and atmosphere without relying on hard edges to separate one form from another. Ea...

1990 B.F.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A
B.A. in Art History, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.

2014 Independent study - New York Academy of Art

2026 Independent study - New York Academy of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Nature Interupted, LAPINcontemporary, North Adams, MA,U.S.A.
2025 Spring 2025 Solo Exhibition, Southern Vermont Arts Center , Manchester, VT, U.S.A.
2024 Gradient, LAPINcontemporary, North Adams, MA, U.S.A.
2024 Into spring, LAPINcontemporary, North Adams, MA, U.S.A.

​GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Prelude Juried Art Show, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, U.S.A.
2025 Art in the Berkshires Juried Art Show, Eastover Contemporary Arts Space, Lenox, MA
2025 Art Now in North Adams, Mixed Media Space, North Adams, MA
2025 Ode to Spring, Celebrating Nature’s Renewal, LAPINcontemporary, North Adams, MA
2025 New Works, LAPINcontemporary, North Adams, MA
2024 Seeing Landscape, LAPINcontemporary, North Adams, MA
2024 Drawn to Precision: In Monochrome, Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
2023 Homes, Hamlets, Villages ( awarded 2nd Place), Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
2023 Impress, Becket Arts Center , Becket, MA
2022 7th Annual Members’ Show, Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
2014 UCLA, Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Garner Art Center, West Haverstraw, NY