NYAB Event - Lois Dodd and Brett Bigbee Exhibition

Lois Dodd and Brett Bigbee Exhibition

Alexandre Gallery

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Lois Dodd has painted her immediate everyday surroundings for sixty years. This exhibition, her eleventh with the gallery, will present twenty-four recent small-scaled paintings that depict familiar motifs such as gardens, houses, interiors and views from windows. In a 2013 review of Dodd’s work, the critic Roberta Smith wrote, “She always searches out the underlying geometry but also the underlying life, and the shear strangeness of it all.” Dodd, now eighty-seven, is an iconic figure of the early New York Tenth Street art scene, along with her contemporaries, such as Alex Katz and Philip Pearlstein.

This exhibition will present two paintings completed by Brett Bigbee over the past four years. Bigbee’s highly detailed and refined realism results in paintings of a timeless arresting psychological intensity and sensitivity that break free of the clichés often associated with the precision realist genre. The critic John Yau has written, “Stillness and change lie at the heart of the artist’s portraits.” Sincere, exquisitely beautiful and extraordinarily crafted, Bigbee’s achievement represents something rare in today’s world.

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