Lucy Dodd (*1981) has created a painterly universe that can be understood as a radical reinterpretation of lyrical abstraction and action painting. Her works—biomorphic topographies of random and intentional marks—resemble painted evocations of cosmological and spiritual landscapes. They are characterized by an emphatically process-oriented approach to painting and the use of unusual color pigments, which often derive from nature and Dodd’s personal environment. Exhibitions by the artist, who lives in Woodstock, New York, often incorporate elements of ritual and theater.

Lucy Dodd
The Return: Works from the North Sea
February 12–April 5, 2025
Berlin
Lucy Dodd’s new paintings mobilise material, colour and shape to explore both personal as well as universal roots and reflections, culminating in a sense of self-unfolding. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present the solo show The Return: Works from the North Sea at the Berlin gallery, which follows its counterpart, The End, staged at The Ranch in Montauk, from November 9 to December 20, 2024. The two exhibitions reflect the artist’s recent move from upstate New York to the Scottish countryside. Working outdoors, she produced two cathartic groups of works that are a true display of place, time and setting. Using mostly unconventional pigments derived from nature and her immediate surroundings, Dodd traces the passage of time and an energetic shift that is echoed in the colours and spirit of the at times frenetic landscapes composed of spills, drops and stains.
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