Lois Dodd Window Paintings

Dodd had set out to find and frame her subject matter the everyday.

Lois dodd window paintings. There is an intimacy to dodds work. The greatest painter of windows since matisse. Before permitting herself to tackle flowers and as she said in a 2017 interview absolutely crazed to use red lois dodd found her opportunity in 1972s night window red curtain. Lois doddback of mens hotel from my window 2016.

Faye hirsch january 16 2018. Learn more about artist insights. Lois dodds 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. 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.

Something quiet and original that can be deeply felt through her work. The windows frame her world and it is through these that we too share her look out. There are thirty four painting in her current exhibition lois dodd. Rent panel paintings at alexandre gallery february 26april 4 2015 all of which are done in oil on aluminum flashing.

Along with fairfield porter alex katz and yvonne jacquette dodd pursued a matter of fact approach to observational painting in the 1950s and 1960swhich can be seen both in reaction to and within the context of the dominant movements of the time abstract expressionism and pop art. Lois doddback of mens hotel from my window 2016. 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. An image such as ice in window 1982 has its minty blue triangular shards obscuring the glass panes.