Tomory Dodge - Hardcover

Ryan, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 097929391X ISBN 13: 9780979293917

Publisher: ACME/CRG Gallery, 2008

Synopsis

Both informed by social context and obsessed with the material abstract gesture, Los Angeles artist Tomory Dodge belongs to a new generation of American painters who draw from the tradition of the historical landscape. With his acute awareness of his medium comes an extraordinary ability to blur the boundaries between representational space and the latent physical form that constitutes an image.

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About the Author

Tomory Dodge's paintings describe places on the edge of society, clandestine sites where revelers might go to partake in the illicit or where youth might go to explore and possibly uncover the remains of a hiker that lost his way. While much of the imagery in his work is in fact drawn from things observed during excursions into the California desert much is left to fantasy. While the subject matter is rich throughout his work, the material itself is often even more so. Dodge s surfaces are held together by networks of well understood gestures; thickly laid on with crude precision, each with a sense of economy and intention independent of the images they constitute. And thus the images represented begin to seem more like clever armatures for something more concerned with the abstract and gestural. While much of his paintings appear to be influenced by a cinematic understanding of image and light with such characteristics as lens-flare and anamorphic distortion, anomalies found only in the realm of photography, it is for Dodge a means of expanding an already vast vocabulary of imagery in the service of paint. Tomory Dodge was born in 1974 in Denver, Colorado. He now lives and works in Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: ACME/CRG Gallery
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 097929391X
• ISBN 13: 9780979293917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136