Doug Argue

[2] In 1989, after the birth of his son, Mattison, Argue's work started being characterized by the use of parts to render the idea of a whole.

He chose chickens as protagonists in a saga where conventionally neglected creatures were turned into subjugated minorities.

In November 2014, three large oil paintings by Argue (Randomly Placed Exact Percentages (2009-2013), Genesis (2007-09) and Isotropic (2009-2013)) were installed in the lobby of One World Trade Center as part of the art collection of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the building.

[6][7][8] In 2015, during the Venice Biennale he exhibited Scattered Rhymes in the Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo on the Grand Canal.

[9][10] In 2018, his work Footfalls Echo in Memory (2017), a re-visitation of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was both the source for choreography and part of the scenography for News of the World, a dance show performed by ODC/Dance.

Doug Argue's 1994 Untitled , an oil painting on canvas (144 in. x 216 in.), is on long-term loan to the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Doug Argue paintings in the north lobby of One World Trade Center, New York City. From left: Randomly Placed Exact Percentages (112 in. x 162 in.) and Isotropic (112 in. x 160 in.). Both are oil on canvas. Genesis (160 in. x 230 in.), oil on linen.
Footfalls Echo in the Memory, an oil painting by Doug Argue completed in 2018, began with his reversed copy of Picasso's 1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon . He then layered the modern masterwork with a blizzard of torqued and twisted letters. The painting (99 in. x 95 in.) was first shown at Marc Straus Gallery in New York City in 2018.
Doug Argue: Letters to the Future , published by Skira in 2020, contains essays, a poem by Ocean Vuong, an interview with the artist and 175 color plates of Argue's work from the 1980s to 2019.