Honourable Mention

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024

Awarded by Musonium Gallery

Bob Doucette

Title:

“Where Angels Fear to Tread”

Medium & Dimensions:

Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 30 in.

About the Artist

Bob Doucette directed many popular animated children’s programs including the PBS SPROUT hits Chloe’s Closet and Dive Olly Dive. Doucette has also worked on such award-winning shows as Clifford’s Puppy Days, Stephen Spielberg Presents: Tiny Toon Adventures and Stephen Spielberg Presents: Animaniacs. His independently animated films won him many prestigious awards and honors and his MFA thesis film Pink Triangle is in the permanent collection at the New York Public Library. Doucette has worn many titles as an artist from set designer to animator and has a wide variety of interest. What started as a career in puppetry segued into a doll-making hobby. His Ben Franklin doll, created for the White House Christmas tree in 1999, is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. Many of his dolls are in the private collection of Demi Moore and have been featured in magazines articles, TV programs and sold in galleries. For the last ten years Doucette has been exhibiting and selling his paintings and sculptures in galleries. Born in Waterville, Maine, educated at Rhode Island School of Design and has a master’s degree in animation from Cal ARTS and at present lives in Peoria Illinois with his husband Tom.

“Where Angels Fear to Tread”: Gay people are constantly trying to conceal their true identity to protect themselves from harm, but like a pink flag, those with sensitive gay-dar can instantly pick up on those signals no matter how hidden.