Exhibition
in New York, NY / United States
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- © Alex Dodge
Klaus Gallery is excited to open its fall season with a solo show of new paintings by Alex Dodge. Dodge will debut a group of oil paintings building upon his interest in recent computing advances, and the ways in which technologies evolve and shape life in the anthropocene.
The show includes a suite of paintings depicting patchwork-skinned humanoids lounging in various states of contemplation, including several portraying figures on the beach. The paintings look to historical antecedents like Manet’s “Olympia” or Cezanne and Picasso’s bathers, picturing a leisure setting infused with a subtext of class. A number of works display impish “daemons” casting magical spells, offering a unique take on the concept of artificial intelligence presented in the guise of 1980s cartoons. A tondo of gleeful, star-embellished pillowy lettering that reads “Circling the Drain, Racing to the Bottom” hovers and looms in the show. Other text-based works take the form of graphic t-shirts, featuring phrases like “Blood in the Water” and “Tabula Rasa.” These paintings engage with the notion of personhood and projections of selfhood in various forms. As a group, Dodge’s paintings explore how technologies mine, mimic, and threaten the idea of our own humanity, examining the potentials and failings of our own inventions.
Alex Dodge lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Takao, Japan. He holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MPS from New York University.
Gallery hours Tue-Sat 11 am – 6 pm
Exhibition Duration 08 September – 21 October 2023
Location:
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
87 Franklin Street
10013 New York, NY
United States
