Lois Dodd Window Paintings

Lois dodd self portait in green window 1971 oil on linen 53 1 2 x 36 inches.

Lois dodd window paintings. Something quiet and original that can be deeply felt through her work. Modern art london and alexandre gallery new york the curtains reappeared props really critic faye hirsch notes when dodd returned to the yellow house lincolnville 1979. Lois dodd window in peak of garage oil on masonite 20 x 16 inches. Lois dodd back of men s hotel from my window 2016.

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. Despite living mainly in manhattan for the best part of seventy years the paintings here are mainly of rural scenes and in particular the landscapes and buildings of coastal maine. Tadpole like raindrops wriggling down four window panes. A welcome relief from.

Lois dodd night house with lit window 2012 oil on linen 122 183 cm. Lois dodd s paintings which capture the ordinary in an extraordinary way are currently on view in a small exhibition at modern art in east london the artist s first survey outside the us. The 90 year old painter is the subject of a new book and exhibition in new york. An image such as ice in window 1982 has its minty blue triangular shards obscuring the glass panes.

Dodd s small intimately scaled paintings are almost always completed in one plein air sitting. There is an intimacy to dodd s work. The windows frame her world and it is through these that we too share her look out. Sell art from your collection.

For over fifty years dodd american b. Lois dodd window in peak of garage oil on masonite 20 x 16 inches. Lois dodd s representational paintings of windows and doors reflect her aesthetic and use of spontaneous abbreviation as her painterly language and never sacrifices form or coloristic detail. Why artist lois dodd one of our keenest observers of the everyday world has been painting windows for 50 years.

Learn more about artist insights. Lois dodd is an american painter known for her contemplative depictions of landscapes windows and interiors around her homes in new york new jersey and maine. Spring landscape fantasy landscape landscape art landscape paintings landscapes house paintings oil paintings interior windows interior and exterior. Dodd had set out to find and frame her subject matter the everyday.

What others are saying. She had previously co owned the house with her tanager gallery colleague and fellow painter alex katz whose practice of making plein air studies on portable masonite panels dodd gradually adopted. Along with fairfield porter alex katz and yvonne jacquette dodd pursued a matter of fact approach to observational painting in the 1950s and 1960s which can be seen both in reaction to and within the context of the dominant movements of the time abstract expressionism and pop art. Lois dodd back of men s hotel from my window 2016.