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DOUG WELSH
UNTITLED ART, HOUSTON
BOOTH A25
SEPTEMBER 19–21, 2025
GEORGE R. BROWN CONVENTION CENTER
F is pleased to announce our participation in Untitled Art, Houston, with a solo presentation by Houston-based artist Doug Welsh. The presentation showcases the recent progression of Welsh’s complex non-objective visual language in bold new gestural large-scale paintings.
Preview hours: Thursday, September 18, 1pm-9pm
Public hours: Friday, September 19, 12pm-8pm
Public hours: Saturday, September 20, 12pm-6pm
Public hours: Sunday, September 21, 12pm-6pm
In contrast to Welsh’s intimately scaled paintings of the last several years, which sought to create their own worlds in dreamlike, often harmonic, compositions that pictorialized cosmic and extraterrestrial horizons, his new large-scale paintings seem to blow those worlds apart. Exploding with energy, these supercharged paintings feature various and visceral painterly techniques with forms that wrap around each other like smoke, confusing the depth of field. His play with opacity and translucency renders spaces that seem simultaneously vast and immediate, creating surreal and dizzying effects. Graphic single-color shapes are carved out of the billowing fields as shrapnel caught in mid-flight. While still resolutely abstract in their commitment to material and non-objective imagistic exploration, Welsh’s new works take a turn from the otherworldly and instead howl with the expressive pitch of earthbound horror and wonder.
Doug Welsh (b. 1991, Miami, FL) lives in Houston. A central figure in Houston’s burgeoning creative scene, Welsh is deeply involved in a multitude of activities. In addition to his dedicated studio practice, these include organizing exhibitions and cultural events, teaching, and writing reviews of exhibitions around Texas.
Welsh received his BFA from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, and an MFA from the University of Houston. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Lifelike, F, Houston, re-rite, Art League Houston, and Conversations at Home, landSPACE: a kunsthalle, Austin (with Terry Suprean). Recent group exhibitions include Angel Dust, Pablo Cardoza Gallery, Ignition, The Jung Center, and HARRY SMITH’S SHIRT, F (all Houston). Welsh has organized numerous exhibitions, including a way to mend, currently on view at The Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, through September 27, 2025. His art criticism appears regularly in Glasstire, the Texas online arts journal. Welsh teaches at Lone Star College North Harris and is co-founder of the Elgin Street Summer Intensive, a program for MFA candidates at the University of Houston.
For more information, please contact Adam Marnie at office@fmagazine.info