Gallery spotlight: paper carries weight at Pizzuti Collection | The Lantern
Gallery spotlight: paper carries weight at Pizzuti CollectionBy Sydney Riddle
“Pair” is the first exhibition of a new series, Pagano said. The idea is to start a conversation by placing two artists in the same exhibition, in this case Dodge and Baldridge, whose work Ron Pizzuti has been collecting since 2005. Both are graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design and share a studio space together in New York.Both artists work in multiple disciplines between new media and fine art. Dodge explores technology as it interacts with and shapes human experience, while Baldridge focuses more on the unseen, peering into remote and unknown places at the edge of society and nature.“Alex and I both have a fluid approach to using process and technology to achieve various conceptual and/or aesthetic effects,” Baldridge said in an email.Pagano said she decided to pair these two artists together due to their multidisciplinary approach such as printmaking, photography and scratch-off ink, as well as their humorous commentary on today’s culture of consumerism, environmental and political issues and the daily overloads of information created by modern technology.“Seeing 12 years of work from Glen and I chronicled side by side is not only moving on a personal level, looking back on the years, but it also paints a picture of how the world has changed,” Dodge said in an email.Elements of the artwork include a variety of ideas and themes. For example, the gallery features Dodge’s paintings of the American flag draped over hidden objects and Baldridge’s boards decorated with bullet hole decals spelling out “The End’s Not Near, It’s Here’” and “Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow.”The Pizzuti Collection is located at 632 North Park St. and is free to members, $12 for adults and $10 for senior citizens. The gallery is open Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m.Read more here
Pair: Alex Dodge & Glen Baldridge | Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Pair: Alex Dodge & Glen BaldridgeNovember 17, 2017 - April 28, 2018Pair: Glen Baldridge and Alex Dodge is the inaugural edition in what will be a series of exhibitions juxtaposing two artists from the Pizzuti Collection. Pair as a concept might be two works next to one another on a wall, or it could be, as with this edition, the linking and connecting of over thirty paintings, photographs, and prints by two artists. Such an effort is part of the mystical project of collections and museums: placing objects together with the idea that their proximity will cause a reaction. The observation of relationships will generate a scintillating friction of ideas.Glen Baldridge (b. 1977 in Nashville, Tennessee) and Alex Dodge (b. 1977 in Denver, Colorado) were selected as the first Pair for myriad reasons: the Pizzuti Collection includes works from over a decade of their making, collected because of the Pizzuti’s interest in their respective projects coupled with the desire to gather a body of work in depth and over time. Baldridge and Dodge both attended Rhode Island School of Design, Baldridge graduating with a BFA in Printmaking and Dodge with a BFA in Painting. The early Aughts brought them together at CRG Gallery in New York (first as preparators and then as co-directors) where they collaborated on expanding the roster of artists and introducing print editions and video series. They share a studio space in New York and are both represented by Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery.While their projects exist independently of each other, as Dodge describes, “there is a persistent undercurrent that connects it, at times through process, but consistently through our shared tendency to waver into murky darkness continually surfacing through humor.” Their paths have led them in their separate but adjacent ways to experiment sharply and slyly. They have adopted the images of our shared contemporary consumer and visual culture (we see Dairy Queen logos, IPhones, Michael Jackson’s glove, dollar bills) to comment on technology’s promises and perils, political and environmental crises, and the uncertainty of interpreting daily tsunamis of information. Using a plethora of traditional printmaking, photographic, and painting techniques but also experimenting with handmade tools, scratch off lotto ink, 3D modeling and computer programming, Baldridge and Dodge show us their version of our anxious and wondrous present moment mixed with levity and mirth.The centerpiece of the exhibition, and an especially piquant example of the mingling of complex processes, is on view in the pairing of Baldridge’s pyrogravure of a deer in the forest and Dodge’s two reduction collages of draped forms. They are curious and materially compelling depictions of things that require an unfolding exercise of looking and exploring in order to get at what we see. In Untitled, a deer in the forest is blithely unaware of the hunting camera capturing its meandering, the shutter triggered by the deer’s own movement. Baldridge laser cut the image into a wood panel and created a print with only the char and burn grabbing at the paper. The blind printing process creates an imprint that pulls us in to ponder its tactile detail. A pervading sense of light in the sepia toned old fashiony-ness of the print pushes us back to absorb the totality of the sylvan quotidian – here memorialized by the animal’s unintentional “selfie”.The two parts of Sexual Awakenings have an equally laborious and curious origin. Similar to many recent compositions, Dodge creates a computer rendering of a textile draped over objects, which then undergoes a process of translation from the virtual to the physical. Here the computer image is made two-dimensional and carved into paperboard. Part I shows a veiled structure with an obscured form that could be bodies intertwined. In Part II the sheet is partially pulled away, showing what Dodge explains is, “a system of self-assembling structures … a molecular sex or the process of molecular union or the creation of new forms through the self-assembly of basic constituent parts.” The mysterious and suggestive image is revealed as a geometric structure which speaks to Dodge’s larger project of addressing those intersections between human behavior and technology and our assumptions about what we think we know and how we understand what we see. There is something of the darkly concealed threading throughout Pair, as if whatever Baldridge and Dodge are making, it is always about the partly hidden, the inside joke, or the troubled underbelly of a system. They hint at alienation, deception, and the construction of ideas that are more fiction than fact. Their photogravures of apparition-filled forest glens or paintings of American Flags covering undisclosed volumes speaks to our moment when it is difficult to establish the definition of the truth, especially when “Post-Truth” is the 2016 word of the year and “alternative facts” is bandied about as a valid epistemological concept. The work in Pair, cleverly and across media, asks that we slow down, stand back, and make it our collective project to question what we see and think about the meanings and messages in our image saturated world.
Fine Arts: Entrepreneurship and the Creative Economy | Pratt Institute
Monday, October 23 • 5:30 – 7:30 pmStueben GalleryPratt Institute200 Willoughby AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11205
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Adjunct Faculty | Rhode Island School of Design
Alex Dodge will begin an adjunct faculty position this Fall semester (2017) at The Rhode Island School of Design. He will be teaching a Digital Tools for Artists class in the Painting Department for Senior level undergraduate painting students.
The Infallibility of Lies | HALSEY MCKAY GALLERY, East Hampton, NY
Alex Dodge "The Infallibility of Lies"May 20th - June 11th, 2017Halsey Mckay Gallery79 Newtown LaneEast Hampton, NY 11937
OCR Friday with Alex Dodge | Office for Creative Research
Welcome to OCR Friday: our studio's salon-style gathering featuring an individual or group working at the intersections of data, research-based art, and creative methodologies.Tonight's talk is by visual artist Alex Dodge who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His studio practice has consistently explored the promise of technology as it interacts with and shapes human experience. His work is deftly located between new media and traditional fine art disciplines including painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA Painting) and New York University, Interactive Telecommunication Program (MPS). He is also a co-founder of Brooklyn Research, a co-working space and consultancy in Brooklyn.Refreshments will be served. If for some reason you cannot attend, kindly let us know.RSVP here.
Vanishing Points | James Cohan, NY
Recent work will be included in the exhibition "Vanishing Points" at James Cohan.March 23 - April 22, 2017Curated by Andrianna CampbellVanishing Points explores traditional perspectival space, fragmentary spatial depictions, and a desktop-publishing aesthetic of leveling in the age of digital-image capture and analysis, as these themes recur in works executed in a variety of media. The exhibition asks what does disrupted viewing look like? Can we envision art that addresses multiple racial, cultural, gendered and even digital identifications by playing with the constructions around these themes? Deeply indebted to the austere eponymously-named exhibition of conceptual art staged at the Moderna Museet in 1984, the original Vanishing Points featured Robert Smithson and Ruth Vollmer among others. Thirty years later, here Vanishing Points addresses entanglements of the geometric and the embodied; it explores the seemingly ascetic and (at times) abstract geometries that approximate the act of seeing next to far more luxurious gambits in figuration...Read the full Press Release here.
Painting in the Network: Algorithm and Appropriation | Hite Art Institute, University of Louiseville, KY
Recent work will be included in the exhibition "Painting in the Network: Algorithm and Appropriation" at the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. "Painting in the Network: Algorithm and Appropriation" is curated by Chris Reitz.On View: February 10 - April 8, 2017 Opening Reception: February 10, 2017, 6 - 8 p.m.Read the full press release here.
International House of Japan, Tokyo | Artist Talk
Alex Dodge will give an artist talk at The International House of Japan on December 8th at 7pm.If you can attend please RSVP:Tel: 03-3470-3211E-mail: ihj-arts@i-house.or.jpInternational House of Japan5-11-16 Roppongi, Minato-kuTokyo 106-0032More info: https://www.i-house.or.jp/eng/programs/af20161208/PDF:alex_dodge_i-house
Arteviste | Interview
Portrait by Flora Alexandra Ogilvy
Interview in Arteviste - Read full interview here.
HYPERALLERGIC | The Seduction of Inscrutable, Shrouded Paintings
The Seduction of Inscrutable, Shrouded Paintingsby Claire Voon on May 26, 2016Read full article here.
Love May Fail, But Courtesy Will Prevail | Klaus von Nichtssagend, NY
Alex Dodge's first solo show in more than 5 years will open at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery on April 29th. This will be his 4th solo show at the gallery.
"Love May Fail, But Courtesy Will Prevail"April 29th through June 5th
Opening Reception: Friday April 29th, 6-8pmContact klaus@klausgallery.com for more details.
ARTNEWS | HABITAT
Featured in ARTNEWSHabitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.Read full article here.
NADA Miami Beach 2015
Alex Dodge, Webinar, 2015, oil on canvas, 39.5 x 52.5 inches
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery will present a solo artist booth at NADA Miami Beach with new paintings by Alex Dodge.NADA Miami BeachDecember 3–5, 2015The Fontainebleau Miami Beach4441 Collins AveMiami Beach, FL 33140Opening Preview by Invitation:Thursday, December 310AM–2PMOpen to the public:Thursday, Dec 3; 2PM–7PMFriday, Dec 4; 10AM–7PMSaturday, Dec 5; 10AM–6PMFor inquiries please call 212-594-0883 or email info@newartdealers.org
Alex Dodge is selected for the 2016 JUSFC U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program
Alex Dodge is among the five U.S. artists selected to participate in the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission's 2016 U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program.“We are pleased to announce a new cohort of the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program”, said Paige Cottingham-Streater, Executive Director of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. “The program remains a high priority for the Commission as well as the National Endowment for the Arts and we are delighted to support the work of the artists as they create and benefit from this cultural and artistic exchange.”Read the full press release
Drawings featured in Issue 7 of Shift
Alex Dodge's drawings are featured throughout the latest issue of Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture.Shift is an initiative that was created in 2008 by Founding Editors Susan Cahill and Sarah E.K. Smith at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Re-envisioned as a mobile, inter-university project since 2010, this annual online refereed journal is dedicated to providing graduate students researching visual and material culture with a venue to present current and original scholarly research and visual art works. Shift is published once a year in October.
Alex Dodge on Brooklyn Research | The Michael Robinson Show AM970
Brooklyn Research co-founder, Alex Dodge, interviewed on the Michael Robinson show AM970 on April 19th. Listen to the podcast:https://soundcloud.com/wnym-tmrs/the-michael-s-robinson-show-4-19-14#t=5:45
Designboom | interactive textiles - symbiosisO: voxel at tribeca issey miyake
By Jenny dboriginal article - April, 2012symbiosisO: voxel interactive textile installationtribeca issey miyake, new york, USAon now through april 28th, 2012the collaboration of hungarian designer eszter ozsvald, estonian textiles developer kärt ojavee, and american interaction artist alex dodge, 'symbiosisO: voxel' is an interactive textile installation, on exhibition at new york's tribeca issey miyake showroom and gallery space. composed of a structure of interlocking honeycomb-shaped 'voxels', each unit is dyed with heat-activated thermochromic ink, connected to a custom electronics system in order to respond to physical and virtual stimuli. users can interact with the work by touching it-- leaving a highlighted imprint on the fabric-- or via a web interface that allows them to design multi-frame animations to be played back on the piece.
Surface | SURFACE CELEBRATES THE SYMBIOSISO: VOXEL OPENING WITH TRIBECA ISSEY MIYAKE
By THE EDITORSOn April 4, Surface and ISSEY MIYAKE USA Corp. held a party for the opening of the SymbiosisO: Voxel interactive installation at the brand’s New York flagship tribeca ISSEY MIYAKE. Sipping cocktails from local distillery White Pike Whiskey and nibbling on sweets from Lady M Confections, guests marveled at the electronic silk-and-ink textile by artists Eszter Ozsvald, Kärt Ojavee, and Alex Dodge. Among those in attendance were Project No. 8’s Brian Janusiak, Museum of Arts and Design curator Ron Labaco, designer David Nosanchuk, and photographer Bela Borsodi.
Coolhunting.com | SymbiosisO: Voxel Thermochromic interactive grids invade Issey Miyake's Tribeca location
By Greg Stefano and James Thorneoriginal article - April, 2012A bright blue interactive installation has taken over the walls of Issey Miyake's Tribeca storefront. Composed of grids of hexagonal pads or "voxels", Symbiosis0: Voxel responds to body heat or "artifacts" left by users who touch its textile surface. Accompanying the physical responsiveness of the piece is a mobile website that enables users to design a pattern that is displayed across the polygons upon submission. The display, a collaboration between artists Alex Dodge, Kärt Ojavee and Eszter Ozsvald had visitors pressing hands and faces against the shapes and delighting both fashionistas and children alike."Issey Miyake’s ability to take traditional designs and techniques and reinvent them through new materials and technology is something we all felt inspired by," relates Alex Dodge. "When we first thought about possible colors for the installation, we found a nice relationship to a traditional Japanese textile dyeing technique known as "shibori"—it's typically indigo blue with white lines. So we found a way of doing something similar with a totally new technology."Connected by a series of wires, the royal blue shapes turn bright white on contact, retaining the impression for a few minutes afterwards. As Kärt Ojavee explains, "Every pixel of the honeycomb-structured installation is individually constructed of several layers: covered with silk, the substrate material is felt, and in between are the warming elements. All voxels have two visual states—blue and a highlighted wire-frame of a cube. The silk is coated with thermochromic ink, reacting to body temperature or activated by the middle layer, which is controlled through a web-based interface."The installation was imagined as an interactive piece that would engage shoppers in a way that traditional art cannot. "People are usually not supposed to touch artworks nor create their own content on the medium," says Eszter Ozsvald. "Suddenly, from a passive listener you become an important part of the installation and your displayed image becomes a part of the interior. I like the fact that you not only take something from the store but you leave a trace, a unique touch behind."SymbiosisO: Voxel will be on display at Issey Miyake in Tribeca through 28 April 2012. Check out the installation in action by watching our rough cut.Tribeca Issey Miyake119 Hudson StreetNew York, NY 10013