NYAB Event - Lois Dodd "Second Street Paintings"

Lois Dodd "Second Street Paintings"

Alexandre Gallery

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For over 50 years Lois Dodd has maintained a loft studio on Second Street near the Bowery. In the late 1960s she turned her eyes out a West window, over a nineteenth century cemetery to the buildings and skyline beyond, and began to paint the view. “Second Street Paintings” will present this series of ten paintings from 1967 – 1970 that range in size from 8 x 10 to 45 x 30 inches. Also included will be three recent paintings depicting the same view from 2006 –2009. On this work the critic and artist John Goodrich writes: “In this selection of paintings of views from her lower Manhattan home, the artist uncovers the inner character of every element in its tell-tale geometry and hue. How do the broad planes of a sprawling brick building regard the day? As crisp, terracotta-colored facets, starkly absorbent under midday sun, in one painting; in another, as rich, close-toned hues, thick with moisture after a snowfall; elsewhere, as a shadowy, distanced plane, on a day so foggy that only a foreground tree strikes a dark note.”

[Image: Lois Dodd "View from the Window, April, May" (1968) oil on linen 35 x 42 in. © Lois Dodd, Courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York]