68 TOMORY DODGE

Study for Oasis, 2004
watercolor and graphite
on paper, 15" x 20"

In the artist’s own words, “My work is often overtly painterly, however, I try to avoid involvement in the kind of expressionistic excess that often accompanies such approaches to the medium. In my case, the broad brush strokes and blatant use of paint’s materiality threaten to overwhelm the representational aspects of the work creating a strange and often disorienting middle-ground between representation and abstraction.” Dodge received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2004, and has been showcased in solo exhibitions at ACME., Los Angeles and Taxter and Spengermann, New York. He has also been included in group exhibitions across the country, and was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant in 2004.

courtesy of the artist and
ACME., Los Angeles
value $1,300–1,700