About L J

L J Douglas is a multidisciplinary artist working in printmaking, artist’s books, animation, and painting. Her practice centers on what forms and defines constructed environments. References from an array of multi-cultural influences inform the artist’s interpretations of landscape as they might be invented, experienced first-hand, or realized through memory.

The conceptual foundations in Douglas’ work involve ideas that act as signs and symbols of farms, suburban landscapes, geographical schema, aerial views of gardens, borders, and mapping. As an important addendum to her visual vocabulary, Douglas uses the machinery of her musical training to develop the particular meter, dynamics, harmony/discord, melody and texture of each piece thus, adding an implied auditory dimension to each composed image. 

L J Douglas has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.: Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago as well as other significant public and private collections.

Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art News, New Art Examiner, Dialogue Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, and The Chicago Reader.

Douglas has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, as well as written art criticism for “The New Examiner” and “Dialogue” Magazine.

She has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of IL Champaign Urbana, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Heartland Community College.