Philip Martin Gallery is pleased to present, "Sketches in Time," an exhibition of paintings-on-paper by Tomory Dodge and Jackie Gendel. In their respective bodies of work, Tomory Dodge and Jackie Gendel make a practice of reconsidering structure - challenging many of the intellectual and visual ideas built into a given artwork - often in the very course of making it.
Recently, Tomory Dodge has been thinking about his work in relation to time. An idea that guides a painting one day might not be the way to guide that same painting the next day. This attitude promotes agency and expression, opening up Dodge's practice to intuition and inspiration. "I'm wary of adhering to any strict idea of what a painting needs to be," he notes. Tomory Dodge's paintings-on-paper use color, shape and line as a means by which to approach the abstract; horizon line, figure/ground, vibrating colored dots, lines and shapes push the optical possibilities of pattern and frame Dodge's energetic compositions.
In her work, Jackie Gendel writes, “I try to get to a place that is unexpected to me." Gendel's colorful, narrative compositions blur the distinction between figuration and abstraction in their rendering of human figures. “I keep on painting the heads and faces over and over again until they get to a place that feels resolved and poignant and mysterious.” Embracing a fluid approach to her work, Gendel has commented how she develops “scenes, characters and situations through deliberate figuration, intuitive mark making, color and chance procedures,” often painting over works, or creating the same image in different colors and sizes to subvert the singular image.
Tomory Dodge (b. 1974, Denver, CO) received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) in 1998 and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA) in 2004. Tomory Dodge’s work was recently featured on David Zwirner Gallery Platform; in spring 2021, a major painting by Tomory Dodge's was acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA). Recent solo exhibitions include Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Miles McEnery Gallery (New York, NY); LUX Art Institute (Encinitas, CA); "Stranger Than Paradise," Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI); "Grafforists," Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA); "Nowism," Pizzuti Collection (Columbus, OH); "An Appetite For Painting," National Museum (Oslo, Norway); "Pouring It On," Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA); "Tomory Dodge and Denise Thomasos: Directions to a Dirty Place," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC); "Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape," Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY); "American Soil," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS); "Sheldon Survey," Sheldon Memorial Gallery, University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE). His work is in the collections of such museums as Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (San Francisco, CA); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA); Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA); Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS); Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN); Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN); Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando, FL); Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN); Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL); Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC); Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI); Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT); and Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY). Dodge's work is the subject of several monographic catalogs and has been discussed in such publications as Artforum, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Art Review, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. Dodge lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Jackie Gendel (b. 1973, Houston, TX) received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) and an MFA from Yale University (New Haven, CT). Her work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at Thomas Erben Gallery (New York, NY); Pratt Manhattan Gallery (New York, NY); Jeff Bailey Gallery (Hudson, NY); Moti Hasson (New York, NY); Mixture Contemporary Art (Houston, TX); and Loyal Gallery (Malmö, Sweden). Gendel’s work is included in the collections of Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT); and the Progressive Collection (Mayfield Village, OH). Her work has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Modern Painters, and Art Papers. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her an Academy Award in 2007. She participated in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program in 2010 and was an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in 2005. Gendel lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.
The exhibition is online through July 6, 2022.
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