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Bold colors and whimsical imagery are essential elements in this body of work. A specific color has the ability to shift it’s meaning and it’s po-tential interpretation as it is filtered through the personal experiences of the viewer. The carefully chosen images will also vary in how they are in-terpreted based on those experiences. An image that at first sight may be reminiscent of a cartoon or pleasant childhood memory, upon further in-spection may be found to reveal a more sinister message. There is then, a duality, a battle of wills existing in the color and in the image.Each color and each image, while holding signifi-cant personal meaning to me, will almost always take on new meanings and interpretations to the viewer. These new interpretations are equally as valid and true as are my own.My hope is that some hint or clue of an unnamed thought or feeling may be transferred to the viewer through the combined visual power of color and image. This is the beginning of a visual conversation between the sculpture and the viewer. Visit my website at www.dougmcabee.com.





I was raised in Charleston, South Carolina and received my BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia and my MFA in Visual Communication from Virginia Com-monwealth University. I have exhibited in California, Colorado, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia, in addition to private and commercial commissions. My commercial art-work has received awards from design publications including Print and Communication Arts, and organizations such as the Advertising Federation of Charles-ton, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. I live in Spartanburg and am Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of South Carolina Upstate. You can see more of my work at www.valde-screative.com, or sign up for up-dates on art, exhibitions, and other shenanigans via my e-mail list at www.zoovaldes.com.