Douglas Shindler is a painter and photographer based in Sullivan County, New York. Shindler is the co-founder of The Black Library, a multifunctional community art space in Monticello, NY. Shindler’s work addresses themes of violence, street life, sport, and community. His images center the underrepresented and the overlooked. Shindler’s gestural impasto paintings with expressive and rich tones are narrative driven and focus on figures, their actions, and their stories. They take inspiration from hip hop lyrics, Black culture, and the vast array of different Black experiences within the diaspora. Shindler’s large format photographic prints celebrate underrepresented people in rural places. The visual field becomes a home for those left out.