CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/14/2019

Lois Dodd, dimension, simultaneity and time in 'Landscape Painting Now'

Lois Dodd's "Water Sunset, Blair Pond" (2008) is reproduced from Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, launching Wednesday, April 17, from 7–9 PM at the Whitney Shop with a panel featuring Dodd, Verne Dawson, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Matthew Wong and author and moderator, Barry Schwabsky. "A complete agreement between the reality of the painting and the reality of what is depicted would be illusionism, not realism," Schwabsky writes. "A painting by Antonio López García, Rackstraw Downes or Lois Dodd may on the surface seem closer to a conventional view of the 'reality' of a vista than one by Soutine or Giacometti, and yet they too are constantly clarifying that the work of observational painting is a constant and never completely resolvable tension between two and three dimensions and between simultaneity and time."