• WILLIAM DOOLEY: COLOR ON THE LINE

    WILLIAM DOOLEY: COLOR ON THE LINE

    January 23 - March 13, 2026

    opening reception Friday, Jan.23 (6-8pm)

    “It is a matter of navigating a populated visual landscape of art and life that influences my attraction to design elements such as stripe, repetition, shape, and color that all offer compass and path. The synthesis of many histories in painting and drawing takes place at uninterpretable levels, and it is in these conditions that I seek common ground and the echo of kinship.”

I have produced paintings and drawings for a lot of different reasons. Materials and processes figure prominently into my ideas.

It is a matter of navigating a populated visual landscape of art and life that influences my attraction to design elements such as stripe, repetition, shape, and color that all offer compass and path.

The synthesis of many histories in painting and drawing takes place at uninterpretable levels, and it is in these conditions that I seek common ground and the echo of kinship.

William Dooley is Professor of Art at The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History, and serves as director of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art.

He teaches in studio foundations and pursues ongoing studio art research in painting and drawing. He joined the university in 1988, moving from Charlotte, North Carolina to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dooley has received degrees in studio art from Georgia Southern University and University of South Carolina.

His work is in the permanent collections of the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Meridian Museum of Art, MS; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL and the Paul R. Jones Museum of American Art at the University of Alabama, AL, and has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout the U.S. Early 2023 Dooley had a one-person exhibition titled “William Dooley: Incremental Memory” at Scott Miller Projects in Birmingham and his work was recently included in a 3-person exhibit entitled “Similar but Different” at the Alabama School for the Fine Arts, ASFA, in Birmingham.