STAR MAN
Tomory Dodge, (Born 1974, American)
Oil painting on canvas (84” x 72”)
On loan to Kentucky Performing Arts from Mr. Henry Heuser
Tomory Dodge has recently moved away from representation and into abstraction, creating works that lack spatial references but allude to the familiar. Drawn from photographic sources as well as imagination and memory, he applies masses of paint in bold, fluid gestures to create often viscerally charged scenes. While the paintings may appear, in the words of critic Bob Nickas, to be the product of "spontaneous combustion,” they are, in fact, the product of months of deliberate work, "of intention rather than intuition.“ Dodge received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2004 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. He also completed the Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program in Rome, Italy in 1997. His work is included in the permanent collections of Berkeley Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Knoxville Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, just to name a few.
