Object Record
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Metadata
Artist |
Dodge, Tomory |
Title |
Mirage |
Medium |
Oil on canvass |
Date |
2006 |
Description |
Tomory Dodge (Denver, Colorado 1974; lives and works in Los Angeles) Mirage, 2006 Oil on canvas 84 x 78 x 2 1/2 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2006 purchase with funds provided by Colleen and Parker Lee, Sylvia and Jan Peters, Arlene Goldstine, Barbara and Steve Apking, Ann and Steve Bailey, David Butler, Kay and Jim Clayton, Jayne and Myron Ely, Stephen Land, Jay McBride, Dan McGehee, Mary Helen and Fran Olmstead, Debby Petrolina, Jerry Sisk, Don Bosch, Lisa and Allen Carroll, April and Steven Harris, Kitsy and Lou Hartley, June and Rob Heller, Cathy and Mark Hill, Susan and Lee Hyde, Roy King, Penny Lynch, Hei and Stanley Park, Alexandra Rosen, Kate Watson, Melanie and Tom Wood, Stuart Worden, Dottie and John Habel, Barbara Bernstein, Donna Dempster, Ed Newman, Pam and Jeff Peters, Claudia and Kenneth Draime Dodge creates large paintings in which broad sweeps of bright pigment define primal landscapes and call attention to the physical reality of the artist's process. For this painting, Dodge was interested in the way that prismatic colors could be used to represent in a convincing manner what he describes as the "overheated delirium" of a mirage. |
Catalog Number |
2006.06.01 |
Search Terms |
Oil paintings Paintings Canvas Abstract paintings Abstract works Landscape paintings Landscapes (Representations) |
Credit line |
purchase with funds provided by |