Alex Dodge

Alex Dodge

The work of Brooklyn-based artist Alex Dodge has consistently explored the promise of technology as it intersects with and shapes human experience. Trained in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, he later went on to earn a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Synthesizing traditional fine art disciplines such as painting, printmaking, and sculpture with new media and technologies, Dodge has devised a unique aesthetic language that deftly navigates the interplay between physical and digital realms.

Vibrantly colored and textured, his work features figures and scenes that feel familiar and uncanny. Tropes and narratives permeating the collective consciousness in our late-capitalist age are reconfigured and delineated via advanced technologies such as 3D design software and algorithm-based techniques but realized in physical form through a process indebted to traditional handcraft methods acquired during the artist’s extended residence in Japan. Set against featureless airbrushed backgrounds that evoke an enigmatic sense of nowhere-ness, Dodge’s tableaus are suffused with an offbeat blend of deadpan humor, wit, and poetry that speaks both to our increasing detachment from lived experience and our paradoxical longing for authenticity.