Tomory Dodge is an American artisit based in LA. His paintings have a frenetic energy powered with bright colour streaked in bold determined brush strokes.
Of his work Dodge explains: “I like the formal tension that comes from the inclusion of different approaches to painting on one surface. But I think a lot of that tension comes from my own doubt in the adequacy of any single approach or system of painting. There is often a simultaneous doubt and fascination by the last mark or action I’ve made. I’m often driven to alter it by doing another action on top of it, not to obliterate or eradicate it, but to make it not so easily absorbed into a preconceived system or approach to painting. I try to make it a hybrid in a way.”
Dodge’s work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; The Saatchi Collection, London and The Zabludowicz Collection, London.
