Some friends and I are involved in starting a new publishing company: Teahouse of Danger. We'll be publishing books, prints, and tshirts. Can't say too much now, we're working on new titles and so forth, and the website hasn't quite caught up. But get on our mailing list and we'll keep you informed of current events...

Moved. I've moved back to Grass Valley, CA, after a wonderful 7 years in Massachusetts. My feet just started to hurt too much! A bit too cold.

I'll be blogging about the travel and performance adventures pretty soon...

New 2008 Shows up-coming:

Lush Life Lounge at the Jazz Heritage Society in San Francisco. Reception Friday Sep 5, 5-8pm.

20th Street Gallery in Sacramento, Reception Saturday Oct. 11 6-9pm

I Am A Dog published by Teahouse of Danger. More Douglass Truth books to be released by Jan 2009: Revolution of Flowers, The Douglass Truth Story (uh, a parody autobiography...), and Death As A Salesman. We're working as well on House of the Magician and What I Did Today.

My twin sister Dorothy, with whom I have an on-and-off friendship - you know how family things go - did a performance of her piece Death As A Salesman at the legendary Dreamaway Lodge in Becket, Mass. last Sunday, May 7. We look forward to the many necessary improvements, and maybe even a DVD based on the show. We'll also be scheduling another performance of A Pittsfield Story sometime later this summer.

Since then we've done the show in Oracle, AZ, Riverside, CA, North San Juan, CA, and Grass Valley CA, and Pittsfield MA. We're looking forward to a Southwest tour winter 08-09.

The original I Am A Dog story is being published by Boleaf Books. I AM A DOG is a 5.5" x 8.5" paperback with 64 pages, many pencil drawings. It sells for $11.95. Buy it here.

My artist's book of the same title was based on this longer version.

You can visit Bo-Leaf Books here. Their website is still under construction at this moment.
The Lives of Dresses
opening at Bella Collections
Through June
152 Main Street, Great Barrington
Call 413-528-3936
Two of my paintings based on a holy mixture of the Spongebob Squarepants world, and the world of Douglass Truth will be presented by Animated Animations at the Art Expo at the Javits Center in NYC this weekend, March 3-6. Giclees will be available soon. More info when we've got it. See the tearsheet here.
My biggest show to date, opens at the Munce Art Center, in Zionsville, Indiana, jsut NW of Indianapolis, My Home Town. Opens March 18, Reception on Mar19. For more info, go to Sullivan Munce.  
Small Works at the
Northampton Center for the Arts

The ReViewed Exhibition - Artists' Books Inspired by Writing in the Berkshire Review - shown at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., is now down, and you can see the paintings I had in the show here.

 

right: Spaces - based on the title of a piece in the Berkshire Review

16" x 20" acrylic on canvas

Opening at Outsiders Art at 131 Kent Rd., Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut - September 4, 2004.

Update - a big success. I'll be putting images of the paintings up here.

I'll be giving a Sheeptacular Artist's Talk at the Lichtenstein Center at 28 Renne Avenue, Pittsfield on Thursday August 19. 7 pm.

NEWS - July 2004

Douglass Truth in The Artful Mind magazine. Interview by Karl Saliter. Here's the text of the interview.

John Shahabian, owner of the Jumpstart Cafe in Sacramento, has supported my work ever since I walked into his coffee shop with my weird t-shirts. He's got a lot of my paintings all over the place - and now someone's filming a movie in Sac, and Jumpstart is one of the shooting locales. here's some info on the movie. See it if it ever makes it to the mall!

NEW GALLERY - The Outsiders Art Gallery

we're thrilled and proud to be the newest artist shown by The Outsiders Art Gallery in Kent, Connecticut. Our first show will be in August and September - with the opening on August 24. The gallery is located at the intersection of Roads 7 and 45 near Kent. For more info, visit the website.

As part of North Adams First Friday Art Walk, I'll be doing a show and reading at Papyri Books in North Adams, MA, July 2. I'll be reading from Revolution of Flowers (as Van Morrison sang, "It's almost Independence Day...."). The show will up for about a month. For more info, call Papyri Books or email us. Music will be served, as well.

I'm proud to have my Sheeptacular Sheep featured on the cover of the Berkshire Eagle's Sheeptacular supplement. Stop by downtown Pittsfield and check out these amazing fiberglass ruminants. Mine's in front of Maggie Mailer's studio, looking up at my sheep's sponsor, Link to Life. Hi Maggie! BAAAAAAA!

UPDATE: The Sheeptacular auction was a mind-blowing success - the top sale price for a sheep was $11,000 !!! - mine sold to someone for $4500. The entire auction raised over $275,000.

The Storefront Artist Project just keeps cranking on, blowing away the most optimistic expectations. The Think Tank fundraiser was the party of the month with at least 400 guests, music, dance, readings, auction, the works. Taking up the entire top floor of the Howard Building. All praise to Meryl Joseph, Maggie Mailer, Joe Wheaton, Megan Whilden, the Nash Bros., and others too many to mention. Wow!

 
From the Valley Advocate, Easthampton, Mass. Link to story. We've never heard of a chiplifter before. Here's a picture of a one.

March 2004

DOUGLASS TRUTH PRINTS AND ORIGINAL PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY AT LOVE DOG CAFÉ

Prints and pages from I am a Dog will be on display at the Love
Dog Café and Herbal Apothecary in Lenox, Massachusetts during the month of March.
The show opens Thursday, March 4th with a reception from 4pm to 6pm,
where the artist will be available to sign prints and copies of the book.
The show is scheduled to be up until March 30th.

The Love Dog Café is located in the Lenox Shops shopping center,
located on Route 7. Featuring organic and delicious meals, juices, teas
and coffees, the café is open Monday through Wednesday from 11am to
5pm, and Thursday through Saturday from 11am to 9pm.

I am a Dog is an allegorical story of the travels of a dog carrying a turtle
perched on his back. Together they cross a wide desert, meeting an owl
and strange blue people in the process, looking for the turtle’s true home.
Paintings and prints from the book have shown in galleries and shows in
Massachusetts, California and Arizona.

  
SUNDAY, MARCH 7th, 2-5

Boston's Floating Gallery presents a show of Douglass Truth paintings at an historic home in Boston. Please call the gallery at 978-828-7007 for directions and information.
 

November 1, 2003

Douglass Truth's Workshop "Art: A No Brainer" in Honesdale PA. Call or email for more info.

  

December 13 2003

Storefront Artist Project Open Studio Day

Studios Open, Performances, Big Sales and Specials on Pittsfield's North Street

 
 

 

Art Student Makes Apres of "Old Master" Douglass Truth's A Girl's Room!


Natalie Seaton with her beautiful painting.

  

"She Floats" • Cover Illustration for Lindisfarne Books
A Way of Seeing by John Allison, November 2003
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