{"id":3307,"date":"2023-10-04T22:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T22:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-alex-dodge-itp-alum-opens-fall-season-at-klaus-gallery-with-so\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T22:04:56","slug":"news-alex-dodge-itp-alum-opens-fall-season-at-klaus-gallery-with-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-alex-dodge-itp-alum-opens-fall-season-at-klaus-gallery-with-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Dodge, ITP Alum, Opens Fall Season at Klaus Gallery with Solo Show of New Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paintings by Alex Dodge<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alex Dodge<\/h1>\n

Daemon-Haunted World<\/h2>\n

September 8 – October 21, 2023<\/p>\n

Klaus Gallery opened its fall season on September 8th with a solo show of new paintings by Alex Dodge<\/b><\/a>. Dodge debuted a group of oil paintings built upon his interest in recent computing advances, and the ways in which technologies evolve and shape life in the anthropocene.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Olympia<\/i> or Cezanne and Picasso\u2019s bathers, picturing a leisure setting infused with a subtext of class. A number of works display impish \u201cdaemons\u201d 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 \u201cCircling the Drain, Racing to the Bottom\u201d hovers and looms in the show. Other text-based works take the form of graphic t-shirts, featuring phrases like \u201cBlood in the Water\u201d and \u201cTabula Rasa.\u201d These paintings engage with the notion of personhood and projections of selfhood in various forms. As a group, Dodge\u2019s paintings explore how technologies mine, mimic, and threaten the idea of our own humanity, examining the potentials and failings of our own inventions.<\/p>\n

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. In addition to multiple solo exhibitions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery since 2006, recent solo exhibitions include BB&M Gallery in Seoul, South Korea (2023); Maki Fine Arts in Tokyo, Japan (2021); The Faro Collection in Tokyo, Japan (2021); and Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, NY (2021). He has had work in group shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio; the Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington, Vermont; The Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas; The Bucksbaum Center for the Arts at Grinnell College in Iowa; Miles McEnery Gallery in New York; Mitsukoshi Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan; Woaw Gallery in Hong Kong; the IPCNY in New York; and James Cohan Gallery, New York. His work is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; the MFA Boston; the Pizzuti Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art; The New York Public Library; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Jundt Art Museum, WA; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA;  Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ITP alum Alex Dodge opened the Fall season at Klaus Gallery with his solo show “Daemon-Haunted World.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}