Doug's Quick-Drawn Conclusions
Pop, pop Dazzled
by Everyday
Art is Freedom
XLife 2025
Birds of a Feather art project
Art Works, Share and Listen
From a Point of Order, to Disorder
Every HeArt has a Story, Listen!
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Faith - Democracy - Nature
From A Point of Disorder to Order
From A Point of Order to Disorder
2015, Social Art Projects, 2025
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From Disorder to a Point of Order, add a little ice cream, my just reward. A young woman, lingering with a tattooed crowd in downtown Edmonton near the library, complimented my artwork. After finishing my rapidly melting ice cream in the 24°C heat, I walked over to her gang to show the backside, titled Disorder. Suddenly, a young man lunged at me. "Get the f*** away from here!" he snapped. Before I could react, the group's matriarch—Mama Tattoo—spoke up. "I like your painting," she said, her voice steady. The young man’s demeanor shifted. He looked at the artwork again, his expression softening. "That's an amazing piece of art," he admitted. "You're a super talent!"
Art is not confined to galleries or bound by rigid interpretation—it moves through streets, public squares, and conversations, finding its audience in the flow of everyday life. It does not judge or take sides but stands as a mirror, reflecting the world in ways only the observer can define. Fate and serendipity weave themselves into the fabric of creation, guiding the brush, shaping the journey, and revealing truths long before they are spoken. To create is not to control but to trust the current, to let the unseen unfold, and to embrace the mystery of what lies just beyond the next bend.
Homme made - Dundee Law
Tribute to Virgil Abloh, Fashion Designer
Dennis Edney Freedom Fighter
Birds of a Feather, they soared in different skies—Virgil Abloh, who transformed fashion into a force for change, and Dennis Edney, who gave voice where silence once ruled. This project is dedicated to their memory. Art is not merely a luxury—it is resistance. Over the past ten years, beginning with my first outdoor art show, I’ve developed ten social art projects, producing hundreds of works and staging countless public exhibitions. These projects confront a broad and pressing range of themes: the Afghanistan War, Truth and Reconciliation, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, Treaties, and Genocides.
I’ve reflected on Alberta’s wildfires and floods and addressed societal issues such as anger, violence, and bullying in hockey culture. My work engages the relationship between nature and humanity, expressed through the symbolism of circles and squares, and explores the shifting tension between light and shadow in abstract forms. Through political cartoons, I offer sharp and timely visual commentary. I also delve into human legacy, the paradoxes of the oil and gas industry, environmental responsibility, and the enigmatic beauty of quantum physics. Other themes include love, kindness, wearable art and fashion, and above all, the enduring value of freedom—of expression and of the press. Doug Brinkman, The Painter. AI
2019-2021
June -2025
