TOMORY DODGE

TOMORY DODGE

8 DECEMBER 2022 - 28 JANUARY 2023
MILES MCENERY GALLERY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE AN EXHIBITION OF NEW PAINTINGS BY TOMORY DODGE. THE ARTIST’S THIRD SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE GALLERY WILL OPEN ON 8 DECEMBER AT 520 WEST 21st STREET AND REMAIN ON VIEW THROUGH 28 JANUARY 2023. THE EXHIBITION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FEATURING AN ESSAY BY GARY BREWER.
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New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Tomory Dodge,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023
Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
TOMORY DODGE

Arges, 2022

Oil on canvas

35 x 30 inches

88.9 x 76.2 cm
"The results of his approach leave a poetic record of the painting’s process of becoming. It is a form of subjective archaeology: The lexicon of colors, forms, patterns, and lines make up the artifacts of a rich dig into the loamy, synaptic soil of his imagination and memory. Dodge has said that by using this method, he earns the poetic resolution that his paintings convey. The results are, in a sense, the broken fragments of an ancient figure, discovered through the methodical process of sifting through the soil of his cultural and personal history, and pieced back together to contain some kind of homage to truth. "

- Gary Brewer in "The Process of Becoming"
TOMORY DODGE

Echo II, 2022

Oil on canvas

35 x 30 inches

88.9 x 76.2 cm
TOMORY DODGE

Map Maker, 2022

Oil on canvas

48 x 48 inches

121.9 x 121.9 cm
Tomory Dodge's Studio, 2022, Los Angeles, CA
TOMORY DODGE

Mesa Boogie, 2022

Oil on canvas

30 x 25 inches

76.2 x 63.5 cm

"Above the horizon line, there are two salmon red mounds and a vertical passage of yellow ochre set against a sky blue, suggesting the vast landscape of the desert. Below the horizon line, a configuration of shifting forms coalesces into a figure, coming into focus in a field of patterns in subtly shifting hues. The patchwork of abstract and biomorphic forms brings to mind a classical sculpture—its formal qualities oscillating between stability and collapse. In a nod to contemporary pop culture, the name 'Mesa Boogie' is also the name of a maker of high-end guitar amplifiers."

- Gary Brewer in "The Process of Becoming"
TOMORY DODGE

Orange Crush, 2022

Oil on canvas

35 x 30 inches

88.9 x 76.2 cm
Tomory Dodge Studio, 2022, Los Angeles, CA
"In his smaller works, Dodge gives himself the freedom to paint quickly and without questioning his choices. Each painting is an epiphany, an answer to an unanswerable question, coming swiftly into the world. These are complete works and, in a sense, fragments—parts to a puzzle that he will store away in his memory and draw from in larger, more complex paintings. In their freshness, we see an essential quality to his work: the pure pleasure of painting and the wonder it inspires in its mercurial shape-shifting potential."

- Gary Brewer in "The Process of Becoming"
TOMORY DODGE

Petaluma, 2022

Oil on canvas

35 x 30 inches

88.9 x 76.2 cm
TOMORY DODGE

Set and Setting, 2022

Oil on canvas

30 x 35 inches

76.2 x 88.9 cm
"Though heavily worked, his paintings have a feeling of lightness to them; the colors and forms express the pleasures of painting. The colors in many of them tend toward a softer pastel palette and suggest the chromatic chords of Pierre Bonnard, whom Dodge admires. They exude an openness and a kind of innocence. Each is a subtle victory in the artist’s search for resolution."

- Gary Brewer in "Process of Becoming"
TOMORY DODGE

The All Day Fest, 2022

Oil on canvas

30 x 25 inches

76.2 x 63.5 cm
“'The zigzag patterns in my paintings are a suggestion of analog TV screens,' he said. 'As a young kid I used to watch cartoons while I drew. The television screens depicted in the cartoons were often filled with this pattern or with dot patterns that I also use. I also love psychedelic rock posters from the 1960s. The color choices I make, where colors clash and create a vibrant optical energy, as well as the radiant sunburst designs that I include in my paintings, reflect that period.'"

- Gary Brewer in "The Process of Becoming"
- Tomory Dodge
  Fox, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  16 x 14 inches
  40.6 x 35.6 cm
- Tomory Dodge
  House, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  13 1/8 x 12 inches
  33.3 x 30.5 cm
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  Hypnotist, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  22 x 18 inches
  55.9 x 45.7 cm
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  Just Sitting, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  17 x 15 inches
  43.2 x 38.1 cm
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  Looking Glass, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  16 x 14 inches
  40.6 x 35.6 cm
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  No Monsters, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  17 x 15 inches
  43.2 x 38.1 cm
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  Red Rock, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  16 x 16 inches
  40.6 x 40.6 cm
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  Still Life, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  16 x 16 inches
  40.6 x 40.6 cm
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Tomory Dodge's Studio, 2022, Los Angeles, CA
“When I met with Dodge at his studio in East Los Angeles, a vast industrial space filled with his work, he told me that he comes to his paintings with a kind of skepticism. 'I am questioning how and when does something become an image,' he said of his work and process. I am working in that ambiguous space between abstraction and figuration. I question the idea of quality—is one thing or experience really superior to another? When a passage in my painting is too beautiful, I paint it out, and through a process of addition and subtraction, I come to a point where I can feel the work is finished. I feel that I have to earn these paintings’ right to be considered complete.'”

- Gary Brewer in "The Process of Becoming"
- Tomory Dodge
  Sun Burn, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  16 x 16 inches
  40.6 x 40.6 cm
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  Sun Sick, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  16 x 14 inches
  40.6 x 35.6 cm
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  The Farm Report, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  22 x 18 inches
  55.9 x 45.7 cm
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  Weather Report, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  17 x 15 inches
  43.2 x 38.1 cm
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Tomory Dodge in his studio, 2022, Los Angeles, CA

TOMORY DODGE (b. 1974 in Denver, CO) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2004 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. While at RISD, he completed their European Honors Program in Rome, Italy in 1997. In 2022, Dodge completed a residency by the Corporation of Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Recent solo exhibitions include Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA; Cherry and Martin; “Deep Sleep,” CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; “The Outside Therein,” ACME., Los Angeles, CA; CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Alison Jacques Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and ACME., Los Angeles, CA.

Recent group exhibitions include “Night Painting,” Phillip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Summer Drift,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Abstract Los Angeles: Four Generations,” The Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA; “Sketches in Time: Tomory Dodge | Jackie Gendel,” Phillip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Big Country” (curated by Spencer Carmona), Left Field, Los Osos, CA; “The Spaces In Between,” Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY; “Do You Think It Needs A Cloud?” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “The Vista,” Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, LA; “Yin/Yang,” O-O LA, Los Angeles, CA; “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Night Walk,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; “Color & Pattern,” Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA; “Stranger Than Paradise,” RISD Museum, Providence, RI; and “Tom Friedman (+The Birthday Show),” 1969 Gallery, New York, NY.

His work may be found in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Collezzione Marramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom.

Dodge lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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TOMORY DODGE

8 DECEMBER 2022 - 28 JANUARY 2023