Douglas Breault

BIO

Douglas Breault (pronounced 'bro') is an interdisciplinary artist who overlaps elements of photography, painting, sculpture, and video. His work has been collected, published, and exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea), Space Place Gallery (Russia), Amos Eno Gallery (New York), and VSOP Projects (New York). Breault has been an artist-in-residence at MassMoca and AS220 and was awarded the Montague Travel Grant to study in London and Paris in 2017. Douglas is a Professor of art at Babson College and Bridgewater State University, and he has been a guest critic at MassArt, Wellesley College, Kansas City Art Institute, and the Slade College of Art, London, among others. He has been a contributing writer for publications including the Boston Art Review, Lenscratch, the Harvard Art Museum, and the Bridgewater Review, and he is the Exhibitions Director at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, where he organizes and curates exhibitions. Douglas received his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a BA in Studio Art from Bridgewater State University, and he currently divides his time between Boston, MA and Providence, RI.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am interested in how personal memory shifts and embeds itself into materials and images, and in the intangible mysteries between birth and death that extend beyond mourning. The suicide of my father when I was eighteen profoundly reshaped my understanding of the uncanny, a curiosity that deepened when I became a father to two children. The tension between the fear of forgetting and the fear of being forgotten has led me to look closely at the mysteries and magic of being earthbound.

I intentionally misapply formal techniques of photography, painting, and sculpture to disrupt material processes and merge fragments, coaxing new potential from the sum of their parts. Materiality is essential to my practice; it allows ideas to move from thought into physical form, with process taking precedence over fixed outcomes. Rooted in photography and painting, I layer digital and analog photographic processes with objects and three-dimensional forms to make tangible the uncertainties of truth and transformation.

Through these material manipulations, I examine absence and imagination as spaces where memory falters and invention expands possibility. Photography itself contains inherent failures; its inability to fully capture or fix reality creates space for distortion. By working within and against those limitations, I stretch and compress time by constructing revisions of memory and attempting to probe the magic of the unknown, evoking the presence of someone or something paradoxically missing or intangible within the image.

CONTACT

douglas.r.breault@gmail.com

instagram : @dug_bro

LINKS

Essay, "Photographic Memories", Bridgewater State University

Review, "Douglas Breault at Carole Calo Gallery", Michael Rose

Interview, I Like Your Work Podcast

Essay, "A Shot in the Dark", The Bridgewater Review

Artist Profile, "A Shot in the Dark", Lenscratch

Artist Profile, "A Shot in the Dark", Aspect Initiative

Review, GoLocal Providence, "Extravagant Chemistry, Anatomies of Painting"

Artist Profile, Studio Visit Magazine, vol. 49