Brown Foundation Gallery

August 24 - November 17, 2024

ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, August 24, 2024
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Artist accommodations generously provided by Hotel Lucine.

Troy Dugas
Fables in Form and Fiber

Fables in Form and Fiber features contemporary fiber works and painted ceramic platters by Troy Dugas. The fiber pieces incorporate hooked fabric, punched yarn, embroidery, found objects, rope, and fringe, while the ceramic platters represent painterly variations of the sinewy tapestries. They feature motifs and imagery rooted in the history of textiles and indigenous folk art and evoke a precarious balance between strength and vulnerability. The combination of these sources reveals a powerful tension between innocence, beautiful nativity and our relationship with nature, mortality, and the ethereal. Through a meditative and labor-intensive process, Dugas’ work becomes a place of self-discovery. The resulting imagery creates narratives that express his adoration and feelings of connectedness to visual representations, cultures, and techniques he references. 

Troy Dugas was born in 1970 in Rayne, LA and lives and works in Lafayette, LA. He received a BFA from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1994 and an MFA from Pratt Institute in 1998. Dugas has received awards from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation in New York and the Louisiana Division of the Arts. His work can be found in several public collections including the Frederick Weisman Foundation in California, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the West Collection in Pennsylvania. Dugas’ work has been featured in publications including New American Paintings, The New Orleans Art Review, and the Oxford American Magazine. Dugas completed a residency at the McColl Center for Art and Innovation (2019) in Charlotte, NC and is represented by Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.

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