Lois Dodd
Outside In: Recent Small Panels

January 6 – March 2, 2024
Reception for the artist Saturday, January 20th, from 2 to 4 pm

Alexandre
25 East 73rd Street, 3rd Floor, Buzzer 3, New York 10021

Alexandre is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition that delves into the poetic artistry of the revered painter Lois Dodd. Titled “Outside In,” this exhibition will invite viewers to immerse themselves in Dodd’s intimate world with panels of subjects captured from within the confines of her homes in rural Maine and the Delaware Water Gap.

Lois Dodd (b. Montclair, New Jersey, 1927) has dedicated over seven decades to capturing her immediate surroundings at home in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, rural Mid-Coast Maine, and the Delaware Water Gap. Lois Dodd studied at the Cooper Union in the late 1940s. She was one of the five founding members of the legendary Tanager Gallery, among the first artist-run cooperative galleries in New York, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy. Since 1954, her work has been the subject of over seventy one-person exhibitions. Her small, intimate paintings are typically completed in a single plein-air sitting, featuring varied subjects like New England outbuildings, vibrant summer gardens, dried plants, moonlit skies, and interior window views. Dodd revisits familiar motifs throughout the year, yielding dramatically different results. As Lucy R. Lippard emphasizes, Dodd’s paintings are “like small poems composed with deceptively simple words,” resonating with viewers long after the initial encounter.

“Outside In” will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with a new essay by independent curator Suzette McAvoy.