Rain in the Garden - Interview with Painter Lois Dodd
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2023
- For over fifty years Lois Dodd (American, 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 moonlit 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 sheer 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. In 2012, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art organized a retrospective of Dodd’s work which traveled to the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. In 2017 she was the subject of a monograph published by Lund Humphries with text by Faye Hirsch.
Bio courtesy of Alexandre Gallery
Wonderful artist! Thank you Lois for your great observations and wisdom,
A fabulous interview….an engaging person, with wise words
Lois Dodd is brilliant!
I love your channel. It "came around" my feed, and so happy it did, saved my bacon.....mentally......watched the interview with Abby Shahn and "Fang", and then this one on Lois. I feel so much better........
Same here. I was looking for some sanity and inspiration and this was it.
What a delightful lady! Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
fantasic, out of this world, priceless
Thank you!!!!
Thank you for sharing this :), I'd never heard of this artist, not her fault, I stopped looking at the artist decades ago, they all seemed to be about themselves and not 'making art', this one is exactly what I needed to help me find faith in artists rather than their "work" which it often is not. So; Thank you for sharing this delight.
Great artist. And how I wish apartment rent everywhere was only $18.45 a month for a decent place.
It's so weird that even today it seems there is an art perspective that abstract is king. For artists to consider natural subject matter, such flowers etc is a perceivable lesser endeavour. I respect her candour in dealing with that external viewpoint against her inner art compass. Also so jealous of 1950s monthly rent, what the heck!
I like hows shes talked abt before, that the painting world is separate from the art world and its trends