Douglas Gil
Douglas Gil was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1975. He develops his potential as a plastic artist in a self-taught way. From the age of 11 he felt a strong inclination for art, painting and drawing, standing out in different exhibitions and art contests at the school level.
In 2007 Gil adopts art as a fundamental part of his life, working as a graphic artist (Political cartoonist)) at the Chacao 2000 Municipal Newspaper in Caracas. He continues to develop his potential and selling his works on his own.
Gil has participated in various art workshops, highlighting his passage through the Museum of Fine Arts of Caracas in the drawing workshop of the human figure, under the tutelage of the master Abilio Padrón, as well as the Art History course, at the Prado Museum in Spain and at the Metropolitan University of Caracas under the tutelage of Professor María Magdalena Ziegler.
In 2016, he signed a representation contract with Art Fusion Galleries in the city of Miami, United States, directed by gallery owner and plastic artist William Braemer, and participated in several exhibitions throughout that year. Since then he has participated in different art exhibitions in the United States, France and Argentina.
At the plastic level, during his beginnings, he explored predominantly figurative works, however, shortly after, he gave way to the deformation of the figure as a method of pure expression of his thoughts and feelings, thus becoming his plastic language. Gil is an expressionist, semi-figurative artist influenced and inspired by the German expressionism movement.
