Alex Dodge

Alex Dodge

Alex Dodge in his Brooklyn studio, 2012
Born (1977-11-28) November 28, 1977
Denver, Colorado, United States
Nationality American
Education Rhode Island School of Design
Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University
Known for Artist
Notable work Everything appears as it is, infinite (2011)

Alex Dodge (born Nov. 1977) is an American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Dodge’s work is included in many important public collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY;[1] The Museum of Modern Art, NY,[2] The New York Public Library, NY,[3] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA,[4] and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.[5] Alex Dodge is represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery.[6]

Early life

Dodge grew up in Denver, Colorado and was the middle child of three brothers.[7] His older brother Tomory Dodge, also an artist and prolific painter, would later show at CRG Gallery where Dodge served as director for some time.[8][9][10] Growing up Dodge had an early fascination with machines and technology of all kinds often disassembling household appliances and eventually building his own computer from parts.[7] Early on, his interests focused on the sciences; first with marine biology, oceanography, and finally particle physics and cosmology.[7] During high school Dodge quickly realized that his math ability was limited and that his ambitions in physics might not be within his grasp. It was during this time that he began to consider visual art seriously.[7]

Education

During high school Dodge was among the first attendees of the Denver School of the Arts, a then newly founded magnet school for the arts. Dodge attended the Rhode Island School of Design majoring in painting and graduated in 2001.[11] After working in New York for eight years as an artist Dodge began to realize a need for greater technical skills and understanding in his artistic process.[12] He applied to MIT’s Media Lab and New York University’s ITP in 2009. Dodge attended ITP from 2010 to 2012 completing his thesis work during that time, a project titled "Kioku: A Semantic Indexing and Exploration Interface for Digital Images".[13][14]

Work

Dodge’s work has often explored the relationship between technology and human experience in varying degrees of subtlety.[15] In a series of works depicting underwater swimming pools he contrasts what he describes as a quantifiable or digital representation of reality in the form of the pixel-like tiled surface of the pool’s structure against the chaotic and seemingly immeasurable gestural reflections in the water’s surface above.[15]

In other works like The Adonis Plant, based on the work by Katsushika Hokusai of the same title Dodge created 3D models of human-android hybrids, using them to create a two-dimensional composition following that of Hokusai’s famous ukiyo-e Shunga.[16] In Dodge’s version of the two figure’s passionate embrace, the phallus has been replaced by a convoluted bundle of cables and wires and the semi-transparent skin of both figures is shown eroding in areas exposing the mechanized skeletons below.

Much of Dodge’s work makes use of digital processes such as 3D modeling and computer generated imagery though often physically mediated through historical art making techniques and processes.[17]

Dodge’s second solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in 2008, which was reviewed in ArtForum, included paintings inspired by the video game Katamari Damacy created by artist and game designer Keita Takahashi.[18] Dodge and Takahashi would later become friends and work together on a project titled Souponuts.[7]

Dodge began publishing his print editions in 2005 with Forth Estate, a fine art print publisher in Brooklyn, NY. His prints had an early success being acquired by many private collections and museums.[1][3][4][5]

Selected Exhibitions

2013

2012

2010

2009

2008

2006

2005

2004

Public Collections

Work Outside the Studio

CRG Gallery

While working at CRG Gallery with artist and fellow art handler Glen Baldridge the two co-curated a summer exhibition titled “Greater Brooklyn”.[22] The show was a response to the then much-criticized exhibition at PS1, “Greater New York”.[23] The show was curated based entirely on images sent via email by hopeful artists.[22] Greater Brooklyn was reviewed in the New York Times and served to help a number of artists begin their careers.[22]

Dodge and Baldridge eventually became co-directors at CRG Gallery helping to expand the gallery’s program with younger artists.[10][24] Dodge eventually left his position at the gallery to pursue graduate study in 2009.[12]

Brooklyn Research

Shortly after graduating from New York University in 2012 Dodge partnered with classmates Johnny Lu and Ezer Longinus to found Brooklyn Research, a co-working space and technology consultancy in Brooklyn, NY.[25][26] The space expanded quickly becoming the home of such research teams as O'Reilly Media’s Atlas group as well as a number of independent researchers.[27] The consultancy led by Dodge, Lu, and Longinus has completed projects for clients including New Era, Verizon, Target, Helmut Lang, and Samsung.[26][28]

Personal life

Dodge began an ongoing obsession with Japanese culture shortly after graduating from art school. Having traveled to Japan a number of times Dodge met Satoko Nakagawa, an accessories designer, in Tokyo in 2007. After a number of years of long distance relations Dodge and Nakagawa were married in Japan shortly after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

In 2003 Dodge was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition Alopecia areata causing irregular spots of hair loss. Because of this Dodge is regularly seen wearing a hat.

External links

References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Whitney Museum of American Art: All Artists". whitney.org. The Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 "MoMA, The Collection, Alex Dodge (American, born 1977)". moma.org. The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Everything appears as it is, infinite - Wallach Prints and Photos". nypl.org. The New York Public Library. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 "The Hidden Power of Everyday Things, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". mfa.org. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 "Alex Dodge, "Everything appears as it is, infinite", The Metropolitan Museum of Art". metmuseum.org. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Artists - Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery". klausgallery.com. Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Baubusya, Kritika (April 2011). "If technology is human". art4d (190): 88–95.
  8. ↑ Belcove, Julie L. (September 2012). "ART SHOW: TOMORY DODGE". ELLE Decor: 136–137.
  9. ↑ "Tomory Dodge - CRG Gallery". crggallery.com. CRG Gallery. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  10. 1 2 Davis, Ben. "Designer Dreams". artnet.com. Artnet. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  11. ↑ "Alex Dodge - Artists - Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery". klausgallery.com. Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  12. 1 2 Alex, Dodge. "Grad School". blog.alexdodge.com. Alex Dodge. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  13. ↑ "Thesis - Kioku". blog.alexdodge.com. Alex Dodge. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  14. ↑ "ITP 2012 Thesis - Alex Dodge". itp.nyu.edu. Interactive Telecommunications Program. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  15. 1 2 Emmons, Amze. "Alex Dodge - PRINTERESTING". printeresting.org. Printeresting. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  16. ↑ Forbidden Images – Erotic art from Japan's Edo Period (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsinki City Art Museum. 2002. pp. 23–28. ISBN 951-8965-53-6.
  17. ↑ Tillman, R.L. "Alex Dodge". printeresting.org. Printeresting. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  18. ↑ Wilson, Michael (May 2008). "Alex Dodge, Klaus von Nichtssagend". Artforum XLVI (9): 384.
  19. ↑ "Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University". stanford.edu. Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  20. 1 2 3 "Alex Dodge - Forth Estate". forthestate.com. Forth Estate. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  21. ↑ "Spencer Museum of Art - Collection - The Legendary Coelacanth". spencerart.ku. Spencer Museum of Art. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  22. 1 2 3 Smith, Roberta (July 8, 2005). "Art in Review; Greater Brooklyn". New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  23. ↑ Buhmann, Stephanie (July 1, 2005). "Greater Brooklyn". The Brooklyn Rail.
  24. ↑ Coblentz, Cassandra (2008). Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up. Scottsdale, AZ: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art ; New York, N.Y. : Gregory R. Miller & Co. p. 190. ISBN 978-0974364896.
  25. ↑ Colombo, Michael. "A "Make Tank" in Brooklyn". makezine.com. MAKE:. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  26. 1 2 Robinson, Michael; Dodge, Alex (April 19, 2014). "New & Innovative Businesses". WNYM AM970 - The Michael Robinson Show.
  27. ↑ "O’Reilly at Brooklyn Research". brooklynresearch.org. Brooklyn Research. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  28. ↑ Dale, Brady. "Brooklyn Research to split into nonprofit coworking and for-profit agency". technical.ly. Technical.ly. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
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