Comments on: Conversation with Lois Dodd

By: Will Rothfuss

Will Rothfuss — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:12:14 +0000

I’m very glad to have found your blog and this interview, even if I’m late to the party!

I’m happy to report that Lois is going strong at 96 or 97 ( not really sure of her birthday.) I went in to the city for her reception at Alexandre this January. She’s still painting, although it’s mostly inside, paintings of bits of bark and nature that her son brings her.

I have been lucky enough to have known Lois since she came out to paint at our farm for the first time in the 1980s. I see her over the winter every month or so, and in Maine when I can get up there. I spent a week taking a workshop with Elizabeth O’Reilly a year ago or so ago that met in Lois’s Maine studio, in the midst of those iconic out buildings she loves to paint.

Seeing Lois is a rejuvenating experience, and despite her protestations that she is a painter, not a NY Artist with a capital A, she epitomizes what an artist is to me. There is nothing even slightly pretentious about her. I am honored to call her a friend.

In the meantime, I look forward to reading more on your site!

Will

By: Ainara Erentxun

Ainara Erentxun — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:07:55 +0000

In reply to Alix Bailey. Eskerrik asko elkarrizketa zoragarri eta argitsuren honengatik. Ona benetan!

By: Kate James

Kate James — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:42:44 +0000

I have always been a big fan of Lois Dodd and especially love her paintings at the museum in Portland. Her name comes up a lot at Concord Art. I have gotten so many requests for her to teach here. Thank you for this wonderful interview.

By: robert henry

robert henry — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 02:50:37 +0000

As a colleague of Lois’ for twenty years I can say that she was almost universally loved and respected. Her directness and clarity was always apparent in her critiques, as it is in her painting. Her answers to your questions, her refusal to get bogged down in ideology exemplify this.

By: Chaya Schapiro

Chaya Schapiro — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:54:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing this special interview with an inspirational and timeless painter. Wishing I could spend time painting with her.

By: Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:46:42 +0000

I stopped by the Alexandre Gallery to see the exhibition yesterday. When you first enter the foyer/reception area you see, on a shelf placed at eye level, several of the postcard sized aluminum flashing panels sitting side by side. They invite you to peer up close and are wonderful, fresh studies. The exhibition in the main gallery space has been hung with an attention to the various color keys that Dodd has explored with her thin paint and underlying geometric structure. It’s fascinating to see these paintings in ‘the flesh’ because you simultaneously take in the strong scaffolding structural design and architectonic, reductive form, explored with very fluid, sensitive brushwork. I am reminded of Paul Nash and Milton Avery. Definitely worth seeing in person.

By: Marjorie Glick

Marjorie Glick — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 17:46:55 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful and inspiring interview. It is reaffirming to hear that there is a difference between painters and “artists” and that beauty and joy have a place in this world. Lois Dodd speaks of many things that I often think about when painting. It is important when painting to be aware of (among other things) shape, color and the relationship of one thing to another. Lois Dodd’s paintings seem to do this in an effortless and intuitive way based on a life of painting and seeing. Reading this interview gives me optimism and inspiration as I begin a new painting today!

By: Debra Yoo

Debra Yoo — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 02:50:56 +0000

The love of painting exemplified in Lois’s work and in her comments are a wonderful tonic. Two tablespoonsful of her attitude prescribed before going into the studio! I feel honored to have met her and taken a couple of workshops with her.

By: H. K. Anne

H. K. Anne — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:25:23 +0000

Thank you for this very thoughtful interview. I received my MFA in Painting from Western Connecticut State University in 2006. Lois Dodd presented a lecture to our group and then visited one on one with each artist in her/his studio. I have always been grateful to Professors Margaret Grimes, John Wallace and Marjorie Portnow for their relationships in the New York art scene which benefitted us tremendously. Her critique was greatly appreciated. Best wishes to Lois Dodd for a continued joyful and healthy journey.

By: Lois Dodd Exhibit, NYC, 2015. Recent Paintings | Ren Associates Blog

Lois Dodd Exhibit, NYC, 2015. Recent Paintings | Ren Associates Blog — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:21:31 +0000

[…] Upon entering into the main exhibit room at at Alexandre Gallery from icy NYC cityscape outside, one is immediately hit with nature’s brilliant colors captured on paintings hanging inside. It takes a few moments to separate them out—a fiery sugar maple tree at its autumnal peak, a Christmas amaryllis dominating its frame. The vermilions and cadmium reds are contrasted with a cacophony of acid greens that eventually coalesce into a melodic fugue. Yet once settled into the gallery space, it’s the bleak but luminous shades of pink and gray sugaring the winter landscape with snow reminding the viewer that it is still winter outside. But have no fear. The painter Lois Dodd graciously positions the viewer in a warm southern window looking out at the winterscapes some of which are sharply etched in the architectural lines of windows and houses while others are softly blanketed with filmy layers of pink and gray layers of atmosphere. Going from painting to painting is a different vista viewed from different windows—or one aptly titled “Reflected Light on Brick Wall” with the light shaped by the window’s frame cast upon a solid brick wall that results in a tripartite meditation on variations of brick tones in reflected light. In another painting, anemic house plants huddle on a shelf at the window doing their best to absorb some light from the falling snow outside mirroring our own winter weary spirits. But catching sight of the pruned apple tree is a much-needed reminder of the promise of spring—it is dormant for now but the tree’s pink trunk hints at buds that have been gathering strength all winter in the alternation of freezing and thawing temperatures that will produce the burst of blossoms in another two months or so. So feed your soul, feed your psyche all the while in the accompaniment of Mother Nature’s dance and a luminous light captured in the strokes of the brush of the amazing painter, Lois Dodd. Pay a visit to Alexandre Gallery, if not in person, online at http://www.alexandregallery.com/current-exhibition/. For a rare treat read an interview with the artist: http://173.254.55.177/~paintiu3/featured-interviews/conversation-with-lois-dodd […]