Lois Dodd
Lois Dodd by Faye Hirsch is a monograph published by Lund Humphries in 2017, featuring 143 pages in English. This book provides an analysis and contextualization of Lois Dodd’s paintings, exploring her work alongside contemporaries such as Alex Katz and Philip Pearlstein within the New York City art scene of the 1950s. Dodd’s approach to observational painting, which emerged from the shadow of Abstract Expressionism, is highlighted, showcasing her commitment to realism rooted in early modernist traditions.
Readers will find a detailed examination of Dodd’s landscapes and city scenes, which reflect the subtle effects of place, light, and weather. The book delves into the timeless quality of her work, capturing the essence of changing seasons and specific moments throughout New York City, rural New Jersey, and Maine. Through extensive studio visits and interviews, Hirsch reveals the processes and inspirations behind Dodd’s art, presenting her canvases as the result of a keen eye and skilled execution. This edition offers a comprehensive look at Dodd’s contributions to contemporary American art and her unique position within the artistic landscape.
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This monograph on the paintings of Lois Dodd provides invaluable analysis and contextualisation of her work alongside such New York City contemporaries as Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and other denizens of the Tenth Street milieu of the 1950s. Emerging from the shadow of Abstract Expressionism, Dodd and this circle clung to a realism based in the early modernist tradition.
Beginning in the 1950s, Lois Dodd has steadfastly pursued her observational painting, remaining aloof from passing trends. She is widely admired as a ‘painter’s painter’ whose landscapes and city scenes display subtle effects of place, light and weather within graphically distilled compositions. Dodd’s works capture the intangible character of changing seasons or particular hours of day in locations throughout New York City, rural New Jersey and Maine, but the paintings betray no mark of era; they are curiously timeless.
Through extensive studio visits and interviews, Faye Hirsch considers the processes, places and impulses behind Dodd’s paintings and reveals her outwardly peaceful, reflective canvases to be the product of an alert and forceful eye and a powerfully efficient execution.
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