The retrospective overview in miniature of Lois Dodd: Selected Panel Paintings at Alexandre Gallery, in its final days, offers a New York signpost to the lyrical landscape painter’s impressive career retrospective, originating last summer at The Kemper Museum in Kansas City, MI currently on view at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, ME. Modest and impressive are the uncontradictory hallmarks, however, of everything Dodd touches, regardless of size or subject matter. Robert Berlind once compared the homely, plainspoken, quintessentially American nature of Dodd’s vision to the Shaker notion of the “gift to be simple”. Many of the works in this gem of a show evoke, equally, an Asian feel in the way that calm meticulousness meets startling spontaneity. DAVID COHEN
through February 16, 2013 at Alexandre Gallery, 41 East 57th Street at Madison Avenue (The Fuller Building), New York City, 212-755-2828
Lois Dodd, Tree Shadow on Snow, 1995. Oil on masonite, 13 x 17 inches. Courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York
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