January 23 – March 1, 2014
Lois Dodd, Allium Seedhead, 2011, oil on Masonite, 15 x15 inches
Alexandre Gallery is pleased to announce Lois Dodd: Recent Paintings, on view January 23 through March 1, 2014. This exhibition will include twenty-two small-scaled oil panel paintings and two medium-sized oil on canvas paintings in Dodd’s first show since her 2012 – 13 traveling museum retrospective “Catching the Light.”
For over fifty years Dodd (b. 1927) has painted her immediate everyday surroundings at the places she has chosen to live and work – the Lower East Side, rural Mid-Coast Maine and the Delaware Water Gap. Dodd’s small, intimately-scaled paintings are almost always completed in one plein-air sitting. Her subjects include rambling New England out buildings, lush summer gardens, dried leafless plants, nocturnal moonlight skies and views through interior windows. She often returns to familiar motifs repeatedly at different times of the year with dramatically varied results.
The critic Roberta Smith wrote in March 2013: “Ms. Dodd loves the observed world, the vagaries of nature and the specificities of old Maine houses: the way they cleave to the ground, or fill a picture frame, or shine, lights on or off, in the moonlight. She always searches out the underlying geometry but also the underlying life, and the shear strangeness of it all.”
Lois Dodd studied at the Cooper Union in the late 1940s. In 1952 she was one of the five founding members of the legendary Tanager Gallery, among the first artist-run cooperative galleries in New York. Dodd is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy. In 1992 she retired from teaching at Brooklyn College. Since 1954 her work has been the subject of over fifty one-person exhibitions. This show marks her tenth with the gallery.
Leslie's Greenhouse & Poppies, 2004, oil on Masonite, 16 x 16 inches
InquireNight, 2009, oil on Masonite, 16 x 25 1/4 inches
InquireFoxglove and Wheelbarrow, 2006, oil on Masonite, 12 x 16 inches
InquireSmall Blue Flower, 2009, oil on Masonite, 12 x 11 inches
InquireForeshortened View, 2009, oil on Masonite, 12 x 19 3/8 inches
InquireBacklit Dahlias, 2007, oil on Masonite, 19 x 9 inches
InquireBishop's Children & Monarch Butterfly, 2007, oil on Masonite, 17 1/8 x 9 inches
InquireGarden Path, 2006, oil on Masonite, 16 x 13 inches
InquireNight House, 2012, oil on Masonite, 14 x 20 inches
InquireMoon Over Mud Flat - 4 AM, 2012, oil on Masonite, 8 5/8 x 9 13/16 inches
InquireAllium Seedhead, 2011, oil on Masonite, 15 x15 inches
InquireMoon + Doorlight, 2012, oil on Masonite, 11 x 16 inches
InquireForsythia in Window, 2012, oil on panel, 18 3/4 x 11 inches
InquireWindow with Amaryllis Plant, 2012, oil on panel, 15 x 13 inches
InquireMarch Snow, 2013, oil on panel, 13 x 16 inches
InquireComposition in White, Brown + Grey, 2000, oil on Masonite, 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches
InquireCorner of Bakery and Tree, 2002, oil on panel, 14 x 15 inches
InquireBakery Window, 2007, oil on panel, 19 x 13 7/8 inches
InquirePorch Roof, 2011, oil on panel, 16 3/4 x 13 inches
InquireDried Queen Anne's Lace, 2013, oil on linen, 58 x 20 inches
InquireMotherwort, 2013, oil on linen, 42 x 20 inches
InquireBlack Scabiosa, Front View, 2013, oil on panel, 16 x 16 inches
InquireBlack Scabiosa (Profile), 2013, oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches
InquireRed Shirt and Window, 2013, oil on panel, 15 3/4 x 16 inches
InquireBarn and Bean Vines, 2013, oil on panel, 15 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches
InquirePink Scabiosa, 2013, oil on panel, 16 x 12 inches
InquireJerusalem Artichokes and Bean Vines, 2013, oil on panel, 20 x 12 3/4 inches
InquirePink Scabiosa, Back View, 2013, oil on panel, 20 x 18 1/4 inches
InquireJan. House, 2011, oil on Masonite, 12 x 11 1/2 inches
InquireLeslie's Greenhouse & Poppies, 2004, oil on Masonite, 16 x 16 inches
Night, 2009, oil on Masonite, 16 x 25 1/4 inches
Foxglove and Wheelbarrow, 2006, oil on Masonite, 12 x 16 inches
Small Blue Flower, 2009, oil on Masonite, 12 x 11 inches
Foreshortened View, 2009, oil on Masonite, 12 x 19 3/8 inches
Backlit Dahlias, 2007, oil on Masonite, 19 x 9 inches
Bishop's Children & Monarch Butterfly, 2007, oil on Masonite, 17 1/8 x 9 inches
Garden Path, 2006, oil on Masonite, 16 x 13 inches
Night House, 2012, oil on Masonite, 14 x 20 inches
Moon Over Mud Flat - 4 AM, 2012, oil on Masonite, 8 5/8 x 9 13/16 inches
Allium Seedhead, 2011, oil on Masonite, 15 x15 inches
Moon + Doorlight, 2012, oil on Masonite, 11 x 16 inches
Forsythia in Window, 2012, oil on panel, 18 3/4 x 11 inches
Window with Amaryllis Plant, 2012, oil on panel, 15 x 13 inches
March Snow, 2013, oil on panel, 13 x 16 inches
Composition in White, Brown + Grey, 2000, oil on Masonite, 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches
Corner of Bakery and Tree, 2002, oil on panel, 14 x 15 inches
Bakery Window, 2007, oil on panel, 19 x 13 7/8 inches
Porch Roof, 2011, oil on panel, 16 3/4 x 13 inches
Dried Queen Anne's Lace, 2013, oil on linen, 58 x 20 inches
Motherwort, 2013, oil on linen, 42 x 20 inches
Black Scabiosa, Front View, 2013, oil on panel, 16 x 16 inches
Black Scabiosa (Profile), 2013, oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches
Red Shirt and Window, 2013, oil on panel, 15 3/4 x 16 inches
Barn and Bean Vines, 2013, oil on panel, 15 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches
Pink Scabiosa, 2013, oil on panel, 16 x 12 inches
Jerusalem Artichokes and Bean Vines, 2013, oil on panel, 20 x 12 3/4 inches
Pink Scabiosa, Back View, 2013, oil on panel, 20 x 18 1/4 inches
Jan. House, 2011, oil on Masonite, 12 x 11 1/2 inches