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Alex Dodge & Tom LaDuke
We Contain Multitudes
28 April - 4 June 2022
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Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Alex Dodge and Tom LaDuke. We Contain Multitudes opens on 28 April and will remain on view through 4 June 2022. This is the inaugural exhibition of Miles McEnery Gallery’s fourth and newest gallery location at 525 West 22nd Street, contributing to a combined Chelsea presence of nearly 26,000 square feet. The fourth gallery is ideally situated a few doors down from the current 511 and 515 locations. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Evan Moffitt.
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Alex DodgeNigel, Awakening From the Meaning Crisis (After JV), 2022Oil and acrylic on canvas36 x 48 inches
91.4 x 121.9 cm -
Alex DodgeNigel, Infinite Recursion (NaN), 2022Oil and acrylic on canvas48 x 36 inches
121.9 x 91.4"With pattern and textile, I was thinking about the way that a draped piece of cloth describes a form—there is shadow. It is an alternate way of describing form. Through whatever lies underneath, that expressive form can distort the pattern. The form can echo a feeling or a sense of quality. It’s a way of creating an image that can be very seductive. There is a surface and tactile aspect to it as well, which is important."
- Alex Dodge
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Alex Dodge in his Studio, Tokyo, Japan, 2022
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"Dodge began working with 3D simulations in 2001 by photographing images inside a swimming pool, reworking them with software to remove the blur of water on the camera lens, and then translating the images into paintings. Now, Dodge alters his own drawings with software, so that his process begins and ends with his own hand. His forms often resemble objects swaddled in richly variegated textiles, with each fold offering a different transformation of the original pattern."
- Evan Moffitt, in "Shadow Play"
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Alex DodgeFeelings the Elephant, 2022Oil and acrylic on canvas53 3/4 x 71 3/4 inches
136.5 x 182.2 cm"The painting "Feelings the Elephant" has a whole narrative behind it, which is that the elephant is a performer in a synthetic circus. She was created to have a deep inner life of feelings but was tragically made so that she’s unable to have any outward emotions."
- Alex Dodge
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Alex Dodge Studio, Tokyo, Japan, 2022
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"Few painters appear to be as different as Alex Dodge and Tom LaDuke. Dodge’s crisply rendered, rumpled patterns, stenciled so that they acquire the texture of their referent fabrics, have a unique physical presence that invites our touch. By contrast, LaDuke’s juxtaposition of abstract gestures—some brushed impasto, others poured or stenciled—atop foggy, inscrutable landscapes seem to place the physical world just out of reach, as if behind a pane of steamed glass."
- Evan Moffitt, in "Shadow Play"
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Tom LaDukesnowglobe, 2022Acrylic on canvas over panel30 7/8 x 30 3/4 inches
78.4 x 78.1 cm"The hazy vistas of Tom LaDuke’s paintings are inspired by both interiority and the landscape of Southern California, where the artist lives and works. Highway views at dawn or dusk through a windshield clouded by sea mist or body heat, they are not portraits of a place so much as evocations of its lonely yet serene affective charge."- Evan Moffitt, in "Shadow Play" -
Tom LaDuke in his Studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
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Tom LaDukeneither the light nor the dunk of stone, 2022Acrylic on canvas over panel35 5/8 x 46 3/8 inches
90.5 x 117.8 cm -
"At first, [the rainbows] were a representation of my wife. She was trying to incorporate a rainbow into a dark drawing, without using any white. I like to get them in traditionally with a paintbrush, even though most people think it’s an airbrush. That’s my little joke to myself. Rainbows are hard to make. They’re beautiful to me."
- Tom LaDuke
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Tom LaDukethe pit in the hole, 2022Acrylic on canvas over panel55 1/2 x 68 1/2 inches
141 x 174 cm"Every one of these spaces generate a specific sound."
- Tom LaDuke
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Tom LaDukeall the whispers between us, 2022Acrylic on canvas over panel57 1/8 x 75 1/4 inches
145 x 191 cm -
"More recently, LaDuke has returned to the scene of the mediated crime, rendering specific contemporary art galleries as the unstable grounds for his surface abstractions. See, for instance, in "all the whispers between us" (2022), how the original layers of vast, anonymous space with whitewashed walls, skylights, and track lighting has been suddenly riven by a seismic crack, while a disembodied head, like a phantasmal viewer, emerges from the vengeful earth. Galleries, LaDuke says, 'are bizarre chapels of commerce,' often cold and empty, always quiet, simultaneously private yet public."
Evan Moffitt, in "Shadow Play"
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Tom LaDuke Studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
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Alex Dodge in his Studio, Tokyo, Japan, 2022
Alex Dodge (b. 1977, Denver, CO) received his Masters of Professional Studies from New York University and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Recent solo exhibitions include “Laundry Day: It all comes out in the wash,” Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan; “Remote Working,” Faro Collection, Tokyo, Japan; Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY; “The Trauma of Information,” Maki Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan; “Whisper in My Ear and Tell Me Softly,” Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY; “The Infallibility of Lies,” Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; “Love May Fail, But Courtesy Will Prevail,” Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY; Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery at NADA Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL; “Artists@Grinnell,” Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, and “Generative,” Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Recent group exhibitions include “Alex Dodge and Tom LaDuke,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Around the World, Around the World” (curated by William Leung), Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong, China; “From Morning ‘Til Night, We Should Never Rely on a Single Thing,” Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Ten Years,” Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; “Spirits in the Material World,” Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan; “Ordinary Objects,” Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan; “Peel from Nature,” Mitsukoshi Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan; “Winter Show,” Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan; “Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; “Pulled in Brooklyn,” IPCNY, New York, NY, and “Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
His work is included in the collections of the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Dodge lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Tokyo, Japan.
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Tom LaDuke in his Studio, Los Angeles, 2022
TOM LADUKE (b. 1963, Holyoke, MA) received his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California State University, Fullerton.
Select solo exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “New Work,” CRG Gallery, New York, NY; “Candles and Lasers,” Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Tom LaDuke,” CRG Gallery, New York, NY; “eyes for voice,” CRG Gallery, New York, NY; “run generator,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; traveled to Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; “Auto-Destruct,” Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “when no one is watching,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Select group exhibitions include “Alex Dodge & Tom LaDuke: We Contain Multitudes,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming); “It’s All About Water” (curated by Elizabeth Fiore & Melissa Feldman), The Storefront, Bellport, NY; “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Loose Canon,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; “Inaugural Exhibition,” CRG Gallery, New York, NY; “New Art For A New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; “FYI–The Reflected Gaze: Self Portraiture Today,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; “Tools,” Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA; “Like Lifelike: Painting in the Third Dimension,” Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA.
His work is included in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL; Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico; Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, and The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY.
He is the recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant and the Trustee Merit Scholarship from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
LaDuke lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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