Keith Doles

“I took up plein air painting a few years ago to help me build a better understanding of painting life as it happens in real time. The challenge is to take a complicated subject and tear it down to its basic elements. This technique is applied to my studio work, especially my urban scene paintings about working class people and their environment.

Nature, geometry, and people are my influences as well as the subjects I emulate through line and color. Some say art is art and design is design. But, I see them on similar ground. I look for the concept, the personality and the soul beneath the surface.”

Keith Doles's work ranges between painting and graphic design. He is a Jacksonville native who graduated from the University of North Florida with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design in 2001. In 2005, he earned a Master of Arts degree in Business from Webster University where he learned how to finance painting commissions and graphic design projects. It didn't help him land a job in the corporate world, but it was useful when Doles began painting portraits for professional athletes, friends and family members. His influences include Cubism and Abstract Expressionism. And, his graphic design and painting style is a mix ...

BFA, Graphic Design, University of North Florida
MA, Business, Webster University

2023: Contemporary Cartographies (MOCA Jacksonville)
2022: Paintings by Keith Doles (FSCJ Deerwood Gallery, Jacksonville, FL)
2022: Joy & Excellence (LeMoyne Arts, Tallahassee, FL)
2018: Infrastructure (JCA Vandroff Art Gallery, Jacksonville, FL)
2015: Street Series Retrospective (FSCJ North Gallery, Jacksonville, FL)
2015: An Artist's Point of View (FSCJ Kent Gallery, Jacksonville, FL)
2014: Haskell Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport (Jacksonville, FL)
2013: JAX Chamber of Commerce Headquarters (Jacksonville, FL)
2012: Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville Beach, FL
2012: Street Series IV (RS&H Architects, Jacksonville, FL)
2011: Metropolis (Avondale Artworks, Jacksonville, FL)
2011: Street Series IV (Perdue Office Interiors, Jacksonville, FL)
2011: Street Series IV (Florida Bank, Jacksonville, FL)
2008: Graphic Art & Paintings Too (FCCJ North Gallery, Jacksonville, FL)
2008: First Impressions (FCCJ Kent Gallery, Jacksonville, FL)
2007: Beaches Fine Art Series, Jacksonville Beach, FL
2004: Street Scenes Collection and The Seasons, (Modis Building, Jacksonville, FL)