A few nights ago, my roommate showed me the artwork of artist Tomory Dodge, who was Colorado-born, now L.A.-based.
The first image I posted, the colorful tree-like oil painting, is called "Survivor Type," measuring 80 x 71 inches. I like the bold, colorful brushwork in the foreground combined with the flat gradient sky-like background. There is something complex yet simple about his pieces.
A quick glance at the piece gives the viewer a simple understanding, that it is large, colorful, and abstract. Yet as ones eyes linger, you begin to see the purpose in the brushstrokes, the representational tendencies within the large brushstrokes. The subject matter. I'm sure seeing them in person is incredibly captivating.
Thanks to this website for the following bio summary:
"Tomory Dodge is interested in what happens when painterly and representational concerns collide. His paintings are formed by a mass of bold and fluid gestures, often thickly laid on in precise dashes or squeezed out directly from the paint tube. These marks have a sense of economy and intention independent of the images they constitute. Where Dodge's early expressionistic canvasses featured vacant arid landscapes, often hinting of human existence somewhere within the un-inhabitable climate, the artistís more recent works explores more fully the possibilities of abstraction in fields of limitless space."
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