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        • David & Beatrice: Hands and Other Symbols. The Work of David W. Cummings and Beatrice M. Mady
        • Take Home a Work of Art Fundraiser 2020
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        • Now Ya See it Now Ya Don’t / Open and Shut / Sneak Peek/ Not Ready for Prime Time / This is Not the Grand Opening: Drawing Rooms Presents Artists of the Topps Building
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        • Drawing Rooms Art Project: JC to AC
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        • Honoring Margaret & Sup-A-Genius
        • NJCU MFA Dress Rehearsal
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        • The Innocence of Trees
        • Bold and Beautiful
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        • ReUse, ReDuce, RePurpose: The Art of ReFuse
        • New Drawing, New Jersey
        • The Nature of Things
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        • Mostly Drawing
        • Color Rules
        • Little Hand
        • Paper Constructions
        • Project Rooms Show 2015
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        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2014
        • Duets
        • Drawing of the Wall
        • There to Here
        • Automatic Systematic
        • Pictures of Everything
        • Just Looking
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        • Raw Drawing
        • Multiplicities
        • Night and Day
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Vija Doks
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    Celery Street. By Vija Doks. oil on canvas. 40X36 inch. $1,000

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    Toledo ohio. By Vija Doks. Oil on canvas, 48x42 inch. $800
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    Toledo Spain. By Vija Doks. Oil on canvas, 48x42 inch. 
    $800  Set of two toledos:$1500

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Vija Doks Artist Bio & Statement
My father worked in a paper mill and he would bring home the mill’s seconds. We always had paper – a pile three-feet high that we kept in the attic- and I could draw to my heart’s content. My cousins came over to our house for drawing contests. When I was splitting up with my artist boyfriend in 1989, I realized that I would not miss him as much as I would miss the art. It was then that I decided to become an artist.
I feel I’m a post-modern artist since I’m torn between styles. I want to follow in the footsteps of Durer, Velázquez and Vermeer and yet am mysteriously drawn to Donald Duck.
My love affair is with oil, but I have been known to cheat. Under the Vermeer umbrella I paint family members and work with historical images. Things are left unsaid and undone. The other style I work in is cartoon-like. My affinity is with teenage boys. The first painting that I ever sold was of cockroaches bought by a young man. I work with words and cartoon characters. I take a truism or a platitude and apply it to the present. Is it still valid?
Works include a diptych that is about the lessons learned or not learned from the Three Little Pigs. It’s a two-- possibly three-- canvas work that compares our modern day society with pre-industrial society. It compares pre-industrial straw huts to modern glass skyscrapers.
A recent project is painting the portraits of 100 famous women. These are redacted portraits aiming at painting the essence of the individual without the interference of background, clothing and other accoutrements,
I work methodically or not. On large canvases I lay out a grid and then sketch in my images. Next I apply a light wash of underpainting and then I build up my image. The canvas becomes a palimpsest with underpainting and drawn lines peeking through the paint. For small canvases, underpainting becomes background as I work spontaneously from sketches. I often apply the paint with my hands and make blunt details with my fingers.

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