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Drugan is an international artist, poet, and lecturer who was an active and leading contributor to the art communities in St. Petersburg, Fl and Santa Fe, NM in the first decades of the 21st century. He received several regional and national awards for his art early in his artistic development. In the 1990s Drugan exhibited in and was represented by one of Japan’s most prominent fine art galleries, Gallery Chayamach in Kobe, Japan, and was the subject of one of the first solo exhibitions held following the catastrophic Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995, then one of the largest disasters in modern human history, to which Drugan was a witness.
As a writer and poet, literature has been a major influence in his art, in this case inspired by the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Drugan has also lectured and taught at several institutions, including the Salvador Dalí Museum, the University of Tampa, and St. Petersburg College. He served as the primary mentor to established artist Richard Seidel and has exhibited with famed late photographer Herb Snitzer and muralist Chad Mize. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Wilzig Museum in Miami Beach.
Date Digital
2026
Date Original
1988
Format
Acrylic on board