Doug Lawler

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and started my art career with oil painting. As a young artist I was intrigued with the romance of painting in the tropics and found myself living in Hawaii where I eventually had several one-man art shows including showings at The Gallery of Fine Arts (Hilo) and the Unitarian Gallery (Honolulu). After winning the top prize in the Hilo art fair two years in a row, the state purchased one of my paintings to add to their collection at the Hawai"˜i State Art Museum in Honolulu.

The allure of the 60's brought me to the San Francisco bay area where I had several one-man shows and was an invited artist at the San Francisco Art festival. During this time I founded a printmaking collective, East Bay Media, in Berkeley where I designed and printed social justice leaflets and posters, including the well-known "Bring the Monster Down" poster, included in the "All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area" exhibit at the Oakland Museum in 2012.

During the late 70's, I traveled to a tiny Mexican fishing village, Yelapa, where I lived and produced a series of pastel drawings that were later exhibited in the U.S. I eventually moved to Spain where, for 12 years, I...