ALEX DODGE

The work of Brooklyn-based artist Alex Dodge has consistently explored the promise of technology as it intersects with and shapes human experience. Trained in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, he later went on to earn a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Synthesizing traditional fine art disciplines such as painting, printmaking, and sculpture with new media and technologies, Dodge has devised a unique aesthetic language that deftly navigates the interplay between physical and digital realms.

Vibrantly colored and textured, his work features figures and scenes that feel familiar and uncanny. Tropes and narratives permeating the collective consciousness in our late-capitalist age are reconfigured and delineated via advanced technologies such as 3D design software and algorithm-based techniques but realized in physical form through a process indebted to traditional handcraft methods acquired during the artist’s extended residence in Japan. Set against featureless airbrushed backgrounds that evoke an enigmatic sense of nowhere-ness, Dodge’s tableaus are suffused with an offbeat blend of deadpan humor, wit, and poetry that speaks both to our increasing detachment from lived experience and our paradoxical longing for authenticity.

Born in 1977, Alex Dodge received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design (2001) and an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University (2012). Solo and two-person exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2022); Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York (2020); The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH (2017); and Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, IA (2014). He has exhibited in group shows at the International Print Center New York (2019); Columbus Museum of Art, OH (2019); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018), among others.

His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New York Public Library; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University; Columbus Museum of Art (OH); and RISD Museum (Providence, RI).

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