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Biographical note
Faye Hirsch is an author, curator and critic who has published widely on contemporary art. She was senior editor of Art in America from 2003 to 2012 and has contributed articles to various journals and magazines including Artforum, Parkett and Art in Print. Since 2012 she has been Visiting Associate Professor and MFA Coordinator, Art + Design at Purchase College, SUNY.'Lois Dodd is the most unconventional person I know. She paints from the inside and her paintings provide sustained viewing. She does not make a product. The paintings belong to the tradition of modern art and at the same time connect with American pre-war painters. Lois's work is alive in our time.'
- Alex Katz,
'In the late 1950s Lois Dodd decided that Abstract Expressionism painting had been enervated. She felt that a new direction was needed and she met the challenge by making her figurative painting more factual. Her rendering of rural Maine opened a fresh chapter in the long and distinguished history of American scene painting. These developments are superbly chronicled in Faye Hirsch's monograph on Lois Dodd.'
- Irving Sandler,
Beginning in the 1950s, Lois Dodd has steadfastly pursued her observational painting, remaining aloof from passing trends. She is widely admired as a ‘painter’s painter’ whose landscapes and city scenes display subtle effects of place, light and weather within graphically distilled compositions. Dodd’s works capture the intangible character of changing seasons or particular hours of day in locations throughout New York City, rural New Jersey and Maine, but the paintings betray no mark of era; they are curiously timeless.
Through extensive studio visits and interviews, Faye Hirsch considers the processes, places and impulses behind Dodd’s paintings and reveals her outwardly peaceful, reflective canvases to be the product of an alert and forceful eye and a powerfully efficient execution.