For over fifty years Lois Dodd has maintained a loft studio on Second Street near the Bowery. In the late 1960s she turned her eyes out a West window, over a nineteenth century cemetery to the buildings and skyline beyond, and began to paint the view. "Second Street Paintings" will present this series of ten paintings from 1967 - 1970 that range in size from 8 x 10 to 45 x 30 inches. Also included will be three recent paintings depicting the same view from 2006 -2009.
On this work the critic and artist John Goodrich writes, "In this selection of paintings of views from her lower Manhattan home, the artist uncovers the inner character of every element in its tell-tale geometry and hue. How do the broad planes of a sprawling brick building regard the day? As crisp, terracotta-colored facets, starkly absorbent under midday sun, in one painting; in another, as rich, close-toned hues, thick with moisture after a snowfall; elsewhere, as a shadowy, distanced plane, on a day so foggy that only a foreground tree strikes a dark note."To view more works by Lois Dodd, please visit http://alexandregallery.com/artists/view/Lois-Dodd
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