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Tomory Dodge
9 September - 16 October
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MILES McENERY GALLERY is delighted to announce an exhibition of recent work by Tomory Dodge, on view 9 September through 16 October 2021 at 525 West 22nd Street. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Terry R. Myers.
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TOMORY DODGE
Oddest Mound, 2021
Oil on canvas
86 x 80 inches
218.4 x 203.2 cm
"Tomory Dodge's newest paintings strongly suggest a sophisticated coming to terms with their potential for multiplicity and freedom, while remaining committed to some of the most tried-and-true, even intrinsic, components of painting, which remains a unique enterprise."
- Terry R. Myers, "Cause Plus Effect Multiplied: Tomory Dodge's Recent Paintings"
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Tomory DodgeIn Fire Light, 2021Oil on canvas72 x 60 inches
182.9 x 152.4 cm"While it is self-evident that Dodge produces a wide range of surface effects with the paint he uses (all the while reinforcing that the paint itself can also be given many different surfaces as paint), the painting “insists” on its own overall surface. So, then, in the case of another painting like "Horns," the body in and on the body of the painting may be more diffuse that the one in "Wild Fox Body," almost slipping in and out of focus despite the all-over distribution of Dodge’s signature multi-colored zig-zag
pattern."
- Terry R. Myers, "Cause Plus Effect Multiplied: Tomory Dodge's Recent Paintings"
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TOMORY DODGE
The Krell, 2021
Oil on canvas
86 x 60 inches
218.4 x 152.4 cm
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Tomory DodgeHorns, 2021Oil on canvas60 x 48 inches
152.4 x 121.9 cm"Dodge’s titles also do their part for his multiverse. I don’t think it is an overstatement to say that the oneness of the bodies in and of Dodge’s paintings contain multitudes."
- Terry R. Myers, "Cause Plus Effect Multiplied: Tomory Dodge's Recent Paintings"
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Tomory Dodge Studio, 2021, Los Angeles, California
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Tomory DodgeMarch to April , 2021Oil on canvas48 x 48 inches
121.9 x 152.4 cm"It’s the kind of experience that, while fleeting, elusive, ghostly, maybe even distant and cool, can leave one feeling desperately present—searching, intimate, connected, warm. It is in providing such moments that Dodge’s paintings establish agency—made by an artist launching into and working through puzzles, fine messes, and maybe even occasional quagmires to world-build within the universe of the canvas, and to propose painting that is informed, astute, imaginative, and alive."
- Christopher Miles, "Caught in the Act: Tomory Dodge's Paintings in The Making and the Viewing"
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"For Dodge, painting is a place where all of the stars in you and me can’t be accounted for numerically or pictorially, but where the feeling and the thought that go with those words can be found, right where the artist found it. Dodge’s paintings are caught in the act, by their maker and their viewers."
- Christopher Miles, "Caught in the Act: Tomory Dodge's Paintings in The Making and the Viewing"
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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. He also completed the Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program in Rome, Italy in 1997.
Recent solo exhibitions include Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA; Cherry and Martin; CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; ACME., Los Angeles, CA; Alison Jacques, London, United Kingdom; and Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Zuoz, Switzerland.
Recent group exhibitions include “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; “Color & Pattern,” Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA; “Stranger Than Paradise,” Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; “Tom Friedman (+The Birthday Show),” 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; “Passage,” ACME., Los Angeles, CA; “I’ll Not Be In Your Damn Ledger,” CRG Gallery, New York, NY; “Grafforists,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; “Cult of Color,” Circuit 12, Dallas, TX; “Lost in a Sea of Red,” The Pit, Glendale, CA; “One Foot on the Ground,” James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA; “Mona,” 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany; “Remains,” Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA; “An Appetite for Painting,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark; “NOW-ISM: Abstraction Today,” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; and “An Appetite for Painting, National Museum of Contemporary Art,” Oslo, Norway.
His work is included in the permanent collections of Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; 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; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
Dodge lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
