Lois Dodd & Alex Katz: The Nature of Things: selected paintings

The Drawing Room and Eric Brown Art Group are pleased to present a two-person exhibition of paintings by Lois Dodd and Alex Katz, on view at 55 Main Street in East Hampton.

Both Lois Dodd (b.1927, Montclair, NJ) and Alex Katz (b.1927, Brooklyn, NY) are noted for capturing the fullness of nature with an economy of means. The artists met while attending the Cooper Union in the late 1940s. They each live and work in New York City and have summered in Maine for many years. Now in their early 90s, they have remained close friends for over seventy years. This is the second two-person exhibition focused on Dodd and Katz; the first was held in 1953 at the legendary Tanager Gallery in New York.

Lois Dodd’s depictions of nature move between sunlit landscapes and moody nocturnes. Vernacular architecture is also the subject of several works. Alex Katz is represented by two paintings of flowers: a large scale 1966 canvas of an isolated white rose blossom silhouetted on a garnet-red background and a recent small composition of irises completed en plein air.

See below for full press release and selected works.