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Born in 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana, into a family famous for its mechanics, bricklayers, and lawyers, Douglass-Truth was cursed from the beginning with a heightened sensibility combined with very poor taste. Attempts at remedial education throughout the years have met with uncertain results, leaving him with a reputation as mixed as his media.
He has worked as a civil engineer and surveyor during the pipeline years in Alaska, a chef, truck driver, building dismantler, English teacher, and as a software salesman in Taiwan. During most of the 1990s he owned and operated a graphic design and silk-screen company, Flying Turtle Graphics, supplying his own unique designs on T-shirts, coffee mugs, and posters to hundreds of companies around the country, including Borders Books, CoffeeWorks, and Federal Espresso.
Truth has worked with California artist E. J. Gold, a founding member of the Grass Valley Graphics Group, of which Truth is now also a member. Gold, a world-renowned painter and sculptor, has had a great influence not only on Truth's style, but on his approach to art and painting.
With the Grass Valley Graphics Group Truth has participated in large group shows from Toronto to Los Angeles, Internet auctions, and other projects. "The experience of working with and in a group of somewhat-like-minded practitioners is something that too few artists today enjoy. In working with others you get lots of feedback, friendship, and pretty good insurance that you won't take yourself too seriously. Group shows of two or three artists are especially interesting, where we can work closely together on the theme and production of the show."
Houses, especially older ones, have always inspired a deep fascination. "I used to find abandoned farm houses in the fields and woods where I grew up in Indiana, and it was as if I could feel the lives of the families who had lived there. As if the house itself remembered them. It was eerie." Reluctant to say much about his work, Truth will add that, "I try to put the viewer into the painting."
After a serious illness in 1998 Truth closed his other businesses in order to devote himself entirely to painting and writing. "After a bout like that," he said, "you find out what is really important to you. I found that out, and am fortunate enough now to be able to do it."
Our Art Gallery also has work by Revernd Howard Finster, Inez Nathaniel Walker, William Edmondson, Thornton Dial, Missionary Mary Proctor, Miz Thang, Nancy Valelly, R A Miller, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, folk pottery and all the great outsiders new or old.
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