Douglas Robert McCurdy is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist who works in the space between the seen and the felt. Guided by fragments of daily life, memory, and subconscious interactions with his surroundings, he reshapes the familiar into something stranger, softer, and more abstract. The same, but different. Combining photography, digital abstraction, sculpture, and sound, he creates a version of reality that feels both distant and familiar.
His practice is rooted in conceptual exploration. Asking questions before offering answers, blending observation and invention. McCurdy’s series "Hoop World" explores the unexpected. Changing perceptions of an everyday object, blending art and sports, reality and fantasy. More recently weaving digital manipulation with subconscious instinct. A pursuit to portray unseen energies and emotional undercurrents.
Douglas’s work invites audiences to reimagine their surroundings, look deeper, and reconsider what they thought they knew. As his work evolves, so does his curiosity. Translating his perception of beauty that hides in plain sight.
SHOWS
SOLO
Lux Contemporary - Chelsea, NY 2023
The Post - Brooklyn, NY 2023
GROUP
CARAVANA - Barcelona, Spain, 2025
Lume Studio - New York, NY, 2025
The Dream Hotel by Hyatt - New York, NY, 2025
DAM MAGAZINE: JRNY Gallery - Las Vegas, NV, 2025
PRIMAVERE DIGITALE - Rifugio Digitale Gallery - Florence, Italy, 2025
Culture3 Art Basel - Miami, FL, 2024
SLAM MAGAZINE: The Local Gallery - Queens, NY, 2024
SUBJECTIVE ART FESTIVAL - New York, NY, 2024
Breakpoint:Suntec - Singapore, 2024
Concrete, Dubai - United Arab Emirates, 2024
NFT Factory - Paris, France, 2024
SLAM MAGAZINE: The Local Gallery - Queens, NY, 2023
Sky 100 -Kowloon, Hong Kong, 2023
Webster Hall - New York, NY 2023
ELV Art Basel - Miami, FL, 2022
SPACE Stockholm - Stockholm, Sweden, 2022
Cineteatro Capitólio - Lisbon, Portugal - 2022
Hippodrome - Paris, France, 2022
93 Feet East - London, UK, 2022
Fair Event - Austin, TX, 2022
Warehouse TERRADA - Tokyo, Japan, 2022
Robot Studios - Miami, FL, 2022
NYA Studios - Los Angeles, CA, 2022
Lume Studio - New York, NY, 2022
SoHo Lofts - New York, NY, 2022
Pioneer Works - Brooklyn, NY, 2021
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ACCIDENTAL / INTENTIONAL
The world is crumbling, yet shapes still stop me cold.
There is beauty.
Not the kind that's planned, but the kind that's left behind.
Accidental, almost perfectly placed.
Proof something's getting through the cracks.
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HOOP WORLD
This is not just a collection of photographs, it is an exploration of the unexpected. It is an obsession, focusing solely on one subject matter over and over again to see how far it can be taken. It is an attempt to put an object into places it has never been before, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
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NOW YOURS
“Familiar, yet oddly different” — Now Yours reimagines iconic locations and scenes across New York City. Playing with conventional and abstract photography, making each location somewhat recognizable, but with a new perspective.
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SOURCES
Sources is a series rooted in digital manipulation reflecting a search for the unseen forces that move us—beauty, memory, energy, and decay. Each piece serves as a portal into something just beneath the surface.
A digital manipulation technique that Douglas has developed that spawned from his photography editing.
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