Alongside these pieces were male figures being engulfed in floods, on the remains of their former lives personified by the cars or houses they floated on.
These artists included, but are not limited to, Nina Bovasso, Tom Burckhardt, Ken Butler, Marc Dean Veca, Tim Maul, and Charles Spurrier.
So I guess the men illustrate a problematizing of the male gaze, and other blurred distinctions between life and the authoritative nudes of the masters, that an eventual instillation will resolve.
This review in The New York Times by Ken Johnson briefly goes over the way Doe's work interacts with mythology and male desire.
With loaded brushes on medium-size canvases, Mr. Doe paints heated close-ups of beautiful nude or partly exposed women.
"Doe is concerned in maintaining a balance in which humorous commentary and the artistically self-referential, narcissism and melancholy are not locked into competition with one another, but remain in a state of suspension.
[10] These oil paintings and watercolors portray pirate women, typically nude or scantly dressed, along with images of ships, either within bottles or upon the sea.
[10] Don Doe uses poses and images from Jean-Honoré Fragonard's[11] work, comic strips, history books, pornography, and illustration genres to create an alternate world where "women are dominatrix 'pirate gals' and men are as ships in a bottle.
Dangerous Waters was published alongside Doe's group show at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University where fellow artists Dylan Graham and Sally Smart were shown.
Inselmann picks up on this, stating that: The choice of creating images of women pirates is crucial to Doe's project for its symbolic quality.
This split within the image of the pirate itself is reflected in Doe's work, which- at once sexist and feminist, real and surreal, unsettling and seductive- has a critical depth which is initially obscured by its pop qualities and direct emotive punch.
[citation needed] In "Bodies Unbound, the Classical and Grotesque", a book published by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in 2012, an article explores Doe's work alongside Martha Rosler.