The animal characters that inhabit REBECCA DOUGHTY's work navigate life's comic and tragic journeys. Doughty creates psychologically charged narratives with deceptively simple images, layered and scraped surfaces, and spare line drawings. In a kind of 2-dimensional miniature theatre, stories are told through subtle gestures, or through the gazes that travel between the characters, their maker, and the viewer.

"Over many years of making paintings, I often find myself revisiting old ways of working. It's a sort of continuous cycle, in which the old become new and surprising again with all that's accumulated in the meantime. In these new paintings, Nearly Nots, I wanted to make complex, active surfaces which would challenge my creature companions to find ways to live in them, in what seemed like inhospitable territory. As in most of my paintings, there is a narrative, but in these, that act of trying to exist-- little dramas of appearing and disappearing-- becomes their story."

Rebecca's paintings and drawings have been exhibited widely since the 1980's, including The Drawing Center in New York, The Boston Drawing Project, DeCordova Museum, Rose Art Museum, and the Courthouse Gallery in Co. Mayo, Ireland. She has received fellowships and awards from the Ucross Foundation, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Blanche E. Colman Foundation, The A.R.T Grant Fund, and an AICA Boston Best Show Award. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, DeCordova Museum, Simmons College, Wellington Management, Fidelity Investments, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ucross Foundation, and private collections in many countries.