Bob Doucette
Undertow: I Hear Te Sirens Song April 15-17
EC Gallery Seaport Village San Diego, CA
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BELOW: ”Leviathan”
Giclee on Canvas 20" x 30"
ABOVE: “Kraken”
Giclee on Canvas 22” x 30”
these are great accomplishments, they pale in comparison to the message of his work—the weight of dreams.
Armed with a dream journal he keeps on his nightstand, he is more often than not on a chase for them. All artists chase dreams, and dreams chase artists day and night. They hope that in meeting it will spawn works which complement the best of this world and the dream, and if by the greatest of luck or by some miracle, they will be able to create an entirely new world. Doucette has fulfilled this feat and what he introduces to our world of restraint is Toboland.
He creates a place as accessible as any dream is, where visitors are reminded of hopes and highs of a past they were not born into, the iconography Doucette adores—Darby’s and Top hats, smoking pipes, cars you had to wind up to drive. All of this summons nostalgia in his collectors and has them thinking, “I remember that too!” Memories are stirred up when it is Magoo they pass on the streets yelling for a cab. The influences that walk in Toboland remind you that it is Doucette’s world, a comical observation, an insight into how Doucette sees things. It is a funny place made of dreams, color, and childhood cartoons. Our world, while different, is not too far from it. Stop by EC Gallery Seaport Village April 15-17 for your one-way ticket to Toboland and venture for yourself.
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