Douglas Max Utter (born December 8, 1950) is an American expressionist painter from Cleveland, Ohio.
[1] His paintings have been displayed in more than 150 exhibitions since the 1990s,[2][failed verification] including thirty one-person shows in Cleveland, New York City, Phoenix, and Germany.
In 1987 he was awarded the grand prize for painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art's May Show and has received Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in 1993, 1995 and 2001, and by the Artists Fellowship, Inc of New York in 2004.
Mainly I think intimacy is a matter of approximations; we do the best we can, but most often sympathy, for instance, can only approach empathy, unless it overshoots its goal and sinks in a welter of self-pity.
Although most of these eighteen works on canvas deal with the situation of a single human presence, distorted by mood or circumstance, they are essentially about how hard, and how necessary, it is to try to touch.Utter has contributed to the book about friend and colleague Stephen Kasner, Stephen Kasner WORKS: 1993–2006.