• PERSONAL DAY

    April 1 – May 20, 2023
     
    BB&M is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of Alex Dodge, whose vibrant, tactile paintings depict uncanny figures and scenes that hover between the digital and the analog, the real and the imaginary. Conceived with advanced digital tools but realized through a manual process indebted to traditional techniques acquired during his extended residence in Japan, Dodge’s work poses questions about the formation of the self and the shifting experience of material culture in our technology-permeated, late-capitalist age.
     

    By turns ambiguous and enigmatic, though vaguely familiar, the forms that populate Dodge’s work straddle overlapping yet indeterminate zones: the anthropomorphic and the artificial, the corporeal and the spectral, the sentient and the inanimate. Key to this effect is Dodge’s deployment of textured patterns in vivid synthetic colors, repeated with variations and distortions, which the artist observes, “could be a stand-in or metaphor for digital systems at large . . . an agnostic, logical system that is overlaid on top of experience.”