The paintings and works on paper of Tomory Dodge have long been interested in the catastrophic and uncanny, particularly in relation to the idea of the landscape. His past work has depicted such scenes as frozen relics of failed arctic explorations and debris strewn expanses of the American desert.

The visceral materiality of the work has always been front and center and has set the stage for Dodges’ more recent exploration of abstraction. This current work features heavily worked, at times chaotic surfaces which suggest massive deluges of falling debris or material flung into space as if one were to freeze time a split second after some violent explosion. Despite all the implied kinetic force in the work Dodge often manages to achieve a unique stillness and lightness similar to what one would experience if the law of gravity were suddenly suspended.

Tomory Dodge was born in 1974 in Denver, Colorado. He now lives and works in Los Angeles.