Doug LaRue | Bio
My career has involved telling stories through books, movies, cover art, music videos... illustrating ideas that help an audience tap into emotions. My goal is to inspire specific energy and emotion with a thoughtful aesthetic pathway that comes from an era challenged to think different, celebrating individual expression. My professional career began at a time when the world was transitioning from analogue to digital. For many years business relied on specialized technologies which allowed older technologies to interface with the newer digital technologies that were coming online. The film industry going from expensive film high resolution to a more reasonable digital high resolution, music, sound and telecommunications going from analogue to digital. This required artists of all kinds to continue to learn new and better ways to achieve high quality professional creative media. Artist from my generation chased every pixel we could get in the days before high definition digital. Now a 35mm film look is a style choice. Film cameras remained the same, for the most part, for decades then digital came along and began evolving quickly. New better quality cameras started coming out every year. School is always in session, the learning never stops. Now were vibe coding original media and breathing new life into archived imagery from our various exploits around the world.
I get a thrill from art collectors who say they had to have something I created because of how it makes them feel! —Emotional ergonomic seasoning for curated living spaces.
Biography
Doug shared a passion for photography, design and sports with his father, a mechanical engineer at the National Helium Reserve. Known in his industry for the design of Helium transport vehicles, his work on the C5-A military transport aircraft and for his side hustle as an NCAA Football Referee. Doug's passion for drawing and painting came from spending time with his creative mother, an accomplished oil painter.
LaRue attended classes in advanced photography at Southern Methodist University, attended field trips to local news media affiliates and publishing companies. His high school yearbook staff won a national design award and was featured in a documentary film— all of which led to a college scholarship.
LaRue graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Design from Texas A&M University College of Architecture while working as a NCAA Sports Photojournalist for regional news outlets, United Press International and Associated Press.
LaRue landed a position as a Medical Illustrator for the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences producing art with traditional mediums, computers, cameras, video, film and digital press equipment. His education continued in media design, illustration and photography through workshops offered to state agencies including the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Advanced Airbrush workshops at the Smithsonian Institute of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Later in his career Doug created and licensed art to the United States Speaker of the House.
LaRue has photographed, produced and directed science and music documentaries for regional media outlets and cable television including The History Channel and Country Music Television.
Director of Photography on archeology, and ancient boat design projects at Tiwanaku, Puma Punku, Suriqui Island, Copacabana on Lake Titicaca, in the Andes Mountains in Bolivia and Peru with Cinestar Films, Glaze Studios, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania Digging For The Truth, The History Channel •
35mm film post production • D1 Art Direction for the Movie Rigged with Academy Award winner George Kennedy Austin Texas and Burbank, California • 1996
LaRue wrote, produced and directed a Screen Actor’s Guild independent film Barlow Grants Wish, produced and directed music videos and live concert films including Van Wilks Low Down, Wound up, Rockin' Texas Blues.
Doug appeared in Mike Judge's Fox Searchlight movie Idiocracy. Austin was abuzz when the creator of such masterpieces of pop culture comedy like Office Space, Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill began production on this film.
Doug had the opportunity to Art Direct a live 3D Avatar video animation interface for eCoinToss. The 3D Avatar premiered on the jumbotron at the 2010 Liberty Bowl providing a new sponsorship platform for charities including St. Jude Children's Hospital. Glaze continues to work with publishers, movie production studios, architecture firms, construction companies, engineers, technology, renewable energy, state and national government agencies, food, sports, music, apparel...
Doug owned Capitol City Publishing, LLC in the 90s - 2000s and was Editor in Chief Capitol City Arts and Entertainment Magazine and MusicTexas.com one of the first online communities in Texas.
Selected Art Exhibitions
• NeWorld Gallery artist/curator, Austin, Texas • 2024-current
• Primal Art Gallery, curated by Joe Lednicky, Dripping Springs • 2022-current
• Sonic Vision: Music/Soundtrack to Our Lives • Round Rock Arts & Culture,
City Arts Ctr. • 2025
• Perspectives, Ardest Gallery, The Woodlands, Texas • Feb-March • 2025
• New Beginnings juried show, Lisa Hoekstra, Gallery at Texas State University • 2025
• Shutterbuggin’ Round Rock Arts & Culture, City Arts Center • 2025
• Art City Austin, Jennifer M. Ramos, Art Alliance Austin, April 12-13 • 2019
• Solo Show, MidTown Art Gallery • Austin, Texas March • 2019
• Spring Gallery Show, Juried by William Campbell, Ft. Worth Community
Arts Ctr. • 2019
• 13th Annual People’s Gallery Exhibition, Suzanne Burton, Austin City Hall • 2017-18
• Art De Eletoka group show, Shad C. Chancey • Austin, Texas • 1997
• International Group Show, Charlene Franz, Museum of Fine Art Austin,
Univ. of Texas • 1996
• ACA Awards Show, Texas State Capitol Building, Artist’s Coalition of Austin • 1994-95
• Fixations, ACA Members Shows • Artist’s Coalition of Austin Gallery, Austin • 1992, 93
• Country Paintings solo show, Brazos Stock Exchange Art Gallery, Bryan, Texas • 1989
• Awards Show Exhibition, Wright Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station • 1985-87
13th Annual People’s Gallery Exhibition, Austin City Hall 2017-18. Now in the Wittliff Collections
Collections of Note
• Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library at Texas State University, San Marcos
• Forsyth Gallery Collections, Texas A&M University, College Station
• Austin Public Library
• City of Austin Music Archives
• South Austin Museum of Popular Culture
• Eric Johnson Music Video, Media Archives
• Van Wilks Music, Art, Video, Media Archives
• Guy Forsyth Music, Art, Media Archives
• Edwin O. Wilson / Threadgill's Art, Media Collection
Awards
• Round Rock Arts & Culture Public Arts official selection, mural installed in Downtown Round Rock • 2025
• Guest Juror Carla Bisong awards LaRue with 2 of the 3 top selections in Perspectives Art Show, Ardest Gallery, The Woodlands, Texas • Feb-Mar • 2025
• Indie Fest Award • SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Indie film Barlow Grants Wish 2014
• GD USA American Graphic Design Awards for Package Design, 2014
• GD USA American Graphic Design Awards for Package Design, 2012
• Nominated Music Video of the Year, Break by Ultrasonic • Austin Music Network 2006
• Featured Artist 2nd Place Range of Motion Texas Journal of Chiropractic Magazine, Artist Coalition of Austin, displayed in the Texas State Capitol Building 1995.
• 1st Place Digital Art 2nd Annual Greater Austin Multimedia Shoot Out 1995
• 1st Place, SCAVMA Photography Contest B&W Texture - Texas A&M University 1987
• Best Student Works - Awards Showcase, Texas A&M Visual Arts Artfest 1986
• The Dean's List, College of Architecture - Texas A&M University 1986
Selected Press/Texts
Bold Journey Magazine • June 2026
https://boldjourney.com/meet-doug-larue
Austin Studio Tour • 2025 Featured Artist
Daily Inspiration: Meet Doug LaRue
VoyageAustin • OCT 2025
Featured cover article, Doug LaRue, Switching it Up, Keeping Things Spicy, Steam Magazine 2016
Featured speaker, Final Cut Pro Non-Linear Video Editing, Capitol Macintosh • Austin, Texas 2003
Guest speaker, New Media Technology, Estates West Magazine • Park City, Utah 2000
Featured Award Winning Artist • Range of Motion Texas Journal of Chiropractic Magazine • 1995
Feature Magazine • Austin, Texas • 1988
Selected Film Projects
John Schneider saves a child from a raging truck driver crashing through a small town. I shot this with a 24mm wide on a Red rig about 8 feet from the truck's path. I was invited to join the IATSE Cinematographers Union after this film • 2010
Camera Operator on the motion picture Doonby • written / directed by Peter Mackenzie, starring John Schneider, Ernie Hudson.
Associations/Boards
• Exec. Producer / Board of Directors Austin Art Park • 2024- current
• Curator NeWorld Gallery • 2024 - current
• Board of Directors, Summer in the City Arts & Music Festival, Austin • 2005
• Judge - Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Awards, NAGC National Association of Government Communicators • 1997
• Board of Directors, Artist Coalition of Austin • 1992 - 94
• MSC Camera Committee • 1983-86
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