?Oil on Canvas? Meets the Future: The Paintings of Alex Dodge
New paintings by Alex Dodge continue to break new ground in digital tools, hand-craftsmanship, and a passion for material and process.
Alex Dodge is pushing the future of painting. His signature raised patterns of oil paint are digitally sketched using 3D design software before landing on traditional canvas using laser-cut stencils and airbrushed backgrounds.
His new paintings are currently on view at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York and continue to break new ground in digital tools, hand-craftsmanship, and a passion for material and process. I met Alex in the gallery to take a deep dive into the process.
Alex Dodge, Installation at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC, 2020
Autonomous Drone (Labor Model) Designation: “Baby Doll”, 2020 Autonomous Drone (Labor Model) Designation: “Baby Doll”, 2020 (detail)
I asked Alex about the computer programs he prefers ? an arsenal of software borrowed from multiple industries, as layered as his finished paintings:
The intermediate stage in my work involves working between a range of different modeling and simulation software. Character modeling, rigging, and animation is done mostly in Maya, 3D Studio, or Blender, but the majority of my work recently happens in CLO 3D or Marvelous Designer for garment design and simulation. A lot of the tools I use are often employed in game development. Recent developments in GPU acceleration have made it a lot easier to do the physics simulations necessary fo...
Alex Dodge is pushing the future of painting. His signature raised patterns of oil paint are digitally sketched using 3D design software before landing on traditional canvas using laser-cut stencils and airbrushed backgrounds.
His new paintings are currently on view at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York and continue to break new ground in digital tools, hand-craftsmanship, and a passion for material and process. I met Alex in the gallery to take a deep dive into the process.
Alex Dodge, Installation at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC, 2020
Autonomous Drone (Labor Model) Designation: “Baby Doll”, 2020 Autonomous Drone (Labor Model) Designation: “Baby Doll”, 2020 (detail)
I asked Alex about the computer programs he prefers ? an arsenal of software borrowed from multiple industries, as layered as his finished paintings:
The intermediate stage in my work involves working between a range of different modeling and simulation software. Character modeling, rigging, and animation is done mostly in Maya, 3D Studio, or Blender, but the majority of my work recently happens in CLO 3D or Marvelous Designer for garment design and simulation. A lot of the tools I use are often employed in game development. Recent developments in GPU acceleration have made it a lot easier to do the physics simulations necessary fo...
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