Dorothy Hood, “Robust Homage to Arshile Gorky,” circa Nineteen Seventies, oil on canvas, 90 x 50 inches
Keep in mind One thing Out of Time, the celebrated Houston artist Dorothy Hood’s solo present at Hollis Taggart in New York provides viewers an opportunity to delve into Hood’s layered work. Organized twenty-five years after her passing, this exhibition is introduced along side the illustration of her property by Hollis Taggart alongside Houston’s McClain Gallery.
Earlier than settling in Houston in 1962, Hood lived in Mexico, and the complexity of her compositions displays the intricacy discovered within the works of different artists working in Mexico throughout her time there, together with Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Frida Kahlo. She was mentored by and associates with José Clemente Orozco, and points of his formal strategy to contrasting areas throughout the similar work are current in Hood’s work.
Dorothy Hood, “Brown Cloud Floating,” Nineteen Seventies–80s, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches
Upon coming into the present, viewers have the chance to view a superb assortment of work by the artist. Blue Waters, Robust Homage to Arshile Gorky, and Brown Cloud Floating are just some of the work on view that present the wealthy medium-specificity of oil on canvas. The plurality of Hood’s approach retains every portray energetic and provocative. Blue Waters completely demonstrates how completely different components of the medium, comparable to facture, thickness of paint, coloration, kind, measurement, and texture, are all uniquely utilized in every part and talk with different components in a proper, sprightly, and weighty method.
Dorothy Hood, “Blue Waters,” circa Nineteen Eighties, oil on canvas, 89 3/4 x 70 inches
The present additionally options drawings and collages that provide a extra complete perspective on Hood’s apply. The entire mediums on view show advanced, distinctive, and compelling compositions, in addition to a eager curiosity in making traces and borders definitive and distinctive to every piece. The collages proceed Hood’s curiosity in contrasting points and types inside every work.
Dorothy Hood, “Picasso is In all places,” 1982–97, collage on matboard, 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
Items like Picasso is In all places present each the formalism in Hood’s work and collages and the humor of her drawings. Hood’s drawings exhibit a definite tone in her apply, and thru humor and weirdness, they obtain glorious compositions and line work, finally conveying a figurative, unserious buoyancy.
The exhibition leaves viewers wanting extra, making a want to delve right into a extra in depth curatorial choice of works by this outstanding painter, like a museum retrospective. Patriarchal artwork historical past capabilities by excluding, overlooking, and forgetting even those that, like Hood, have influenced whole communities of artists. They get the eye they deserve when gatekeepers determine to profit from the work.
Dorothy Hood: Keep in mind One thing Out of Time is on view by means of April 12 at Hollis Taggart.
