Title
Round
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles
Estimated Retail Value: $20,000
Starting Bid: $12,500
Tomory Dodge begins his paintings with patterns of stripes and shapes. Over this structure, he lays in expressive marks and gestures that he builds up, scrapes off, and manipulates over weeks, even months. Works like Lover draw us in with their directional lines and buoyant color, presenting allusive abstract forms that activate the surface and, with the titles, invite creative interpretation. About his work, Dodge notes: "I have long been fascinated by the alchemy of modern image creation, having realized as a child that the pictures on my family’s old analog TV set were composed of little dots. Since then, I have been interested in the image in painting on both the 'molecular' and 'macro' levels - how one can show and see both the forest AND the trees at the same time.”
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Tomory Dodge
Tomory Dodge (b. 1974, Denver, CO; lives and works in LA) received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He has recent and upcoming solo and group exhibitions at Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Miles McEnery Gallery (New York, NY); LUX Art Institute (Encinitas, CA); Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Pizzuti Collection (Columbus, OH); National Museum, Oslo, Norway; Neuberger Museum of Art; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Dodge’s work is in the collections of museums such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (San Francisco, CA); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA); Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA); Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS); Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN); Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN); Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando, FL); Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN); Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL); Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC); Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI); Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT); and Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY). Dodge's work is the subject of several monographic catalogs and has been discussed in such publications as Artforum, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Art Review, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.
