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), the Bristol Art Museum, the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Amos Eno Gallery, and VSOP Projects. 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, 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. He 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 intentionally misapply traditional techniques of photography, painting, and sculpture, disrupting materials and merging disparate fragments to explore the fallibility of personal memory, the complexities of fatherhood, and the intangible forces of life and death. Materiality is central to my process, where form becomes secondary to the act of making—an approach that allows me to navigate the uncertainties of truth and transformation. Drawing from archival images, inherited objects, and layered materials, my work seeks to reconcile what is remembered with what is lost. My father’s death by suicide when I was eighteen marked a turning point, shaping my interest in art as a means of examining the intersection of absence and imagination—where memory falters, and reconstruction begins. I question the limitations of photography in capturing a life, investigating how an image can be fractured, obscured, or reassembled to evoke the presence of someone or something that is paradoxically missing.

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, "Ryan Arthurs in Conversation with Douglas Breault", Lenscratch

Interview, "Jodie Mim Goodnough in Conversation with Douglas Breault", Lenscratch

Interview, "Mariah Robertson in Conversation with Douglas Breault", Lenscratch

Interview, "Mitchell Squire in Conversation with Douglas Breault", Lenscratch

Interview, "Toni Pepe in Conversation with Douglas Breault", Lenscratch

Interview, I Like Your Work Podcast