Temple Douglass (b. 2000, Columbus, GA) is a Pennsylvania based artist working primarily with the figure. Her charcoal drawings are an exploration of isolation, melancholy, and dissociation. Temple received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Georgia in 2023 and is the AXA Art Prize 2nd Prize Winner for that year. Her work has been published in Black Art Magazine and Stillpoint Literary Magazine. Her recent exhibitions include Where the Sidewalk Ends and 8.19% at the University of Georgia and National Black Empowerment Council’s The Beginning.
Having struggled a lot with feelings of sadness and emptiness I aim to explore the way artists in the past traditionally personified melancholy. For me, that's accompanied by the feeling of floating endlessly or being consumed by blues. This part of my life is ripe with ideas and feelings that I strive to find inspiration in as a means of creating something beautiful out of something hard. In my work I often seek to find commonalities with centuries of artists through depictions of melancholy in the canon, while also cementing my own style and image as part of that history.
Pennsylvania
