Jane Davis Doggett to Exhibit at Lighthouse Center for the Arts

Tequesta, FL (February 15, 2008) Jane Davis Doggett, architect, artist and author of Talking Graphics, will show twenty-seven enlarged panels of “vector images” from her new book when the exhibition opens at the Lighthouse Center for the Arts in Tequesta, Florida, on March 12. These intensely colored, geometric designs create dynamic spatial relationships comprising a new visual language — unique in its concept.  

Mrs. Doggett is best known as the creator of thematic graphic identity and way finding systems for mass public complexes including 40 international airport projects — more than any other designer in the world. Twenty million airport passengers each year are guided by her way finding signage and graphics.  Installations of her way finding systems are found at the airports in TampaTampa, Baltimore-Washington, Miami Miami, Newark Newark, Cleveland-Hopkins and George Bush-Houston. Other public places at which she has done projects include Madison Square Garden Garden, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Niagara Falls International Convention Center and Jones Hall for the Performing Arts in Houston .  Most recently she created the Graphics Systems Guidelines and developed several projects for the expansion of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.  Among her distinguished honors for design are the American Institute of Architects’ National Award of Merit, Progressive Architecture Design Award, American Iron and Steel Institute’s Design in Steel Citation, along with two design awards co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts.  

Talking Graphics will appeal to lovers of both art and literature. She expresses philosophical messages with bold color and geometric designs in what is the first in a planned series of illustrated books of proverbs and quotations from various cultures such as African, American, Chinese, Japanese and Mexican. The book also includes a selection of Roman proverbs and passages from the Bible.

Having grown up in Nashville, Mrs. Doggett received her BFA with Special Commendation from Newcomb College College, where she won the Distinguished Alumna Award in 2007.  She later received her MFA with top honors from Yale School of Art and Architecture where she pioneered the field of architectural and environmental graphic design.

Director at Yale University's Art Gallery Jock Reynolds noted, “Jane Doggett is one of the great artists to have trained at Yale during its modernist heyday. Her vivid way finding graphics have for decades guided many of us deftly through myriad airports and civic spaces throughout the world.  Now Jane’s first artist book, Talking Graphics, offers us the opportunity to hold many of her beautiful graphic images intimately in our own hands, cradling them in our vision along with time-tested words and thoughts that this creative dynamo holds dear.”  

Among her other public roles, Mrs. Doggett is serving her fourth term as Commissioner of the Town of Jupiter Island.  She is a charter member and co-founder of the Town Arts Committee and serves on the Advisory Board of the Nature Conservancy at Blowing Rocks. 

The exhibition runs from March 12-29 with a reception and book signing on Wednesday, March 12 from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm.  The Lighthouse Center for the Arts, located at 373 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta, FL , is open Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. – 4:30 pm.  Call 561-746-3101 for more information.

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