Doug Baulos
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II
From their urban studio in downtown Birmingham, artist Doug Baulos creates rich and earthy installations from found objects as well as homemade textiles and pigments. The UAB Assistant Professor of Drawing has built an impressive career as a fine artist, with an upcoming show at the Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto, Japan and a current exhibit at the newly opened Shelby County Arts Center titled Root, Branch, and Star. Doug’s hand-bound books, mixed-media installations, and woven work is grounded in themes of nature, mortality, and loss but feels hauntingly fragile — beautiful with a delicate darkness. Doug shares with us their own sources of inspiration and how they hope to inspire young artists in the south.