Lucy Dodd (born 1981, New York) is an American artist known for immersive painting and performance-based installations. Her paintings incorporate a wide range of materials, including liquid smoke, flower essence, and dog urine, often installed theatrically in galleries and museums in a manner that suggests ritualized space. She lives and works in Kingston, New York.
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Early life and education
Dodd studied at the Art Center College of Design, California (BFA, 2004) and Bard College, New York (MFA, 2011).
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Career
Dodd's 2013 debut New York solo exhibition titled The Studio Before 54, organized by David Lewis at the project space No5A, established Dodd's practice as distinctly female, poetic and process-oriented while accomplishing a large-scale format evocative of, and holding their own from, the "traditional bravura" of artists such as Anselm Kiefer and Rudolf Stingel.
Her following 2013 exhibition Cake 4 Catfish at David Lewis Gallery in their lower east side space, further established qualities and organization of chaos within abstraction. Jerry Saltz critically compared Dodd to mid-century artists like Cy Twombly, Sigmar Polke, and Robert Ryman alongside contemporaries like Jessica Jackson-Hutchins, Sarah Braman, and Uri Aran. This very same exhibition has also been described as bearing a "suggestion of craft, traditional women's work and a little black magic reinvigorating Modernist severity". The checklist of the exhibition reveals that Dodd uses natural substances such as spirulina, kombucha, and yew berries paired with charcoal, pigments, and graphite.
Later in 2014, Dodd was featured in a solo exhibition at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, FL. Dodd was born 100 years after Pablo Picasso to the day, conceived a single monumental painting the exact size of Picasso's Guernica. A corresponding artist's book, The Genesis of a Painting was released to accompany the exhibition.
Wuv Shop, Dodd's third solo New York exhibition at David Lewis in October, 2015, was an "exploration of the exhibition as a ritualized space -- in which paintings conceived as characters, mythical and poetic fragments, or totems, are activated and transformed over a period of time." During Wuv Shop, Dodd "invited anyone who currently owns her work to return it to her during the exhibition for updating and modification -- that is for additional Wuv".
In 2016 Dodd had her second institutional exhibition at The Power Station in Dallas, Texas. Titled Buttercut. , the exhibition continued the pairing of domestic items and parties with paintings in "carefully haphazard installation[s]".
In 2016, Dodd also exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Open Plan series featuring her trademark use of frottage and organic materials such as squid ink. The paintings at the Whitney were be surrounded by recently made shaped canvases that were intended to evoke sails or waves and respond to the gallery's river views. By bringing her studio activities into the gallery and inviting musicians to perform, Dodd fosters what she calls "a space of ritual action and improvisation demanding a longer and broader engagement on the part of the audience."
Most recently in 2017, Lucy Dodd showed for the first time at Sprüth Magers. In this exhibition Dodd presented four paintings, works on paper, and a chair sculpture. Dodd sees painting as an organic entity, which extends to her choice of materials. Works in the show contain, for example, squid ink, hematite, yerba mate, and other organic material. "The exhibition format is a form of non-linear time, a homage to the history of abstract painting that looks beyond formalism and to a space of spiritualty and mystery."
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