[1] In his animation-based practice, he explores aspiration and progress, his main goal is to question “the foundation of a culture consumed by striving.”[2] Through his work, he seeks to depict a world anxious in the shadow of a looming apocalypse, where environmental disaster and social inequities continue with increasing prevalence and complexity.
[2] Some of his public projects have included BRIGHT CANYON, which was presented by the Times Square Alliance and used Times Square's electronic billboards to create the illusion of a canyon with waterfalls and animals (2014); "The Fluid", an animation installation on screens inside the Fulton Street Subway Station (2017); LEAP, a video projection in New York City's Columbus Circle, presented by Creative Time (2000); and Commutable, where he gilded the commuter and bike path on the Williamsburg Bridge in 22k gold, presented by the Public Art Fund on the Lower East Side (1996).
[2][5] In an interview with Patricia Maloney,[6] Doyle refers to a painting series called The Course of an Empire, by Thomas Cole.
Doyle was intrigued by the cyclicality of civilization and created a series of animations, beginning with the "fulcrum moment of disaster," in his piece Apocalypse Management.
In the original painting series, Cole depicts a brief rise to glory and followed by a sudden and dramatic collapse and overtaking by nature.
Like other art exhibits that make use of a community or area, this piece was greatly appreciated by pedestrians walking and riding along the bridge.
2023 Ramifications, Digital Animation on LED Screen, Permanent Installation, Zero Irving, Studio Rotation I, Fundacion Op.Cit, Mexico City, Mexico 2022 Shorebirds, Performance Installation, Collaboration with composer Jeremy Turner, Performed by Simone Porter, Lotusland, Montecito, CA The Fabricators, Solo Exhibition, Center for Main Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME 2021 The Fluid (seven channel version), Permanent Installation, The Ameswell Hotel, Mountain View, CA 2020 Parables of Correction, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Newly Fallen, Presented by Cynthia Winings Gallery on the John Murphy Trail, Blue Hill, ME 2018 Unexpected Narratives, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL Swell, Curated by Sutton Beres Culler for Bellwether, Bellevue, Washington Hollow and Swell, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Fluid, Fulton Street Station, MTA Arts for Transit, New York, NY In the Labyrinth, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Presto!, Presented by Converge 45, Portland, OR Dreams of Infinite Luster, 21C Museum Hotel, Durham, NC Recent Animation and Work on Paper, Texas Contemporary, Catharine Clark Gallery, Houston, TX Apocalypse Management, RL Window, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY Union, Collaboration with The Louisville Ballet and The Louisville Symphony Orchestra, Louisville, KY Animations from The Lightening.