Five Paintings by Charles Doan from His Show “Little Bar Stories”
Charles Doan is a visual artist living in Tampa, Florida. He received an Associate of Arts degree in Fine Arts from Hillsborough Community College. After graduating, eighteen months were spent researching, studying and producing paintings with the “Encaustic” painting technique in order to immerse himself in the potency of surface, depth and texture produced by the method. Since 1991, he has produced commission pieces, participated in exhibitions and produced self-directed works in welded steel, mixed-paint, drawing and photography.
The paintings of” Little Bar Stories” by Charles Doan were from the last 10 years of Ybor City’s West End. Ybor City is a historical neighborhood in Tampa, Florida located just northeast of downtown. It was founded in the 1880′s by cigar manufacturers and populated by immigrants from Cuba, Spain and Italy, The exhibition highlighted pieces documenting a career spanning 30 years on the west end of Ybor including Rough Riders and Oak Barrel in Ybor Square to Fuma Bella.
During the Opening Reception, national voice-over artist and local raconteur, David A. Waterman, told stories provided by long-time Ybor habitues and bon-vivants while a soundscape of ambient bar recordings played in the background. The exhibit ran in December 2015 at the Silver Meteor Gallery in Tampa, Florida.