Please join us for an Artist talk and discussion with artist Tomory Dodge

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.

Tomory Dodge’s landscape-like paintings based on photographs of swamps and deserts, clouds and trees, appliances and explosions have slowly given way to pure abstraction. “Before, the brushstrokes constructed the image,” the Los Angeles-based artist has said, “Now the brushstrokes are the image.” His canvases are covered with hybrid gestures, created by laying down a mark and then altering it, a process that has become even more important in his more recent mirrored images, where he attempts to re-create these marks. The result can be layers that bleed together, organized by vertical and horizontal rainbow colors, or built-up impasto surfaces that seduce the viewer, earning him comparisons to Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter.

Recent solo exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; 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.