Lois Dodd
(American, born 1927)
Biography
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. 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. Dodd has developed a highly idiosyncratic yet straightforward technique of recording her observations in one sitting, en plein air, on Masonite panels. “I’m always aware that I’m trying to get the outline of any shadows or anything like that right away before it shifts because I was attracted to the way it looked at the moment I arrived,” she explained. “Not the way it will look by the time I leave. If things are moving too much, and shadows are shifting, I have to outline all that quickly in order to maintain the way it looked to me when I was first attracted to it.” Born in 1927 in Montclair, NJ, Dodd studied at Cooper Union before starting a gallery and co-op space called Tanager Gallery which ran from 1952–1962. In 2012, she was the subject of a retrospective entitled “Catching the Light” that traveled from the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City to the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Dodd’s works can be found in the collections of the Colby College Museum in Waterville, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, among others. The artist lives and works between New York, NY and Lincolnville, ME.
Lois Dodd Artworks
Lois Dodd
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