Doug Glovaski was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1951. His family moved to California when he was seven and has remained ever since. Glovaski and his wife currently live in San Francisco.

 

Glovaski was encouraged  by his parents as a young boy to draw and paint. He continued this interest in art through adolescence and into high school where he majored in art.

 

After high school Glovaski  went to work at regular jobs where he remained for many years. One day, at the age of thirty five he realized  this wasn't the life he wanted. It was then he decided to make a change to become a professional artist.

 

For the next year he concentrated on producing  art. Every chance he got, he would  paint, sometimes working well into the night, until he felt he had a body of paintings worthy of showing.

 

Over the next couple of years, through local art consultants, he would show his paintings at local restaurants and cafes and where ever else he could . It was at one of these shows that he was noticed by a  highly respected local  gallery owner. That started an affiliation that would last ten years with several  solo and group shows.

    During this time he also met New York based artist Dorothea Rockburne and subsequently worked for her on several of her large scale wall paintings . The experience of being in New York city for extended periods of time left a lasting impression on Glovaski that would carry over into his own work.

 

In 1995 Glovaski and his wife moved to San Francisco from the south bay. He eventually became affiliated with the Dolby/Chadwick Gallery in 2002 and has been represented by them in the bay area ever since. Through Dolby/Chadwick Gallery he was also introduced to the Sears-Peyton Gallery in New York in 2003.

 

In 1996 Glovaski was the recipient of the coveted Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant.

 

After eighteen years as a professional artist, Glovaski still works at the same furious pace as when he first started. Producing mostly works on paper and some on canvas, his work now appears in several institutional, corporate, and private collections.  He is represented at Dolby/Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco and Sear-Peyton Gallery in New York.