Lois Dickson: Forty Years of Oil Paintings, presents an expansive view of the artist’s work over the past four decades. The exhibition situates new paintings within Dickson’s wide-spanning practice, ranging from organic form to geometric abstraction. Her paintings consistently reveal her intuitive, vigorous, and dedicated exploration of her subjects and medium, evolving through spontaneous gestures that interplay with formal logic on the canvas.
The paintings of Lois Dickson reflect an ongoing interest in the natural world, from subject matter monumental in scale—glaciers and geysers of Chilean Patagonia—to a sphere of radically inverse proportion: the micro cosmos of butterfly wings. Woodland scenes and the rich detritus of the forest floor also serve as departure points for Dickson’s painterly abstractions. The physicality of her painting process is always in evidence, as are themes of renewal and decay. Despite the overtly organic nature of her subject matter, there is an underlying geometry that underscores her investigation of form in its fluid and static state. The more recent work moves from observation to the very process of painting itself. One hopes the paintings engage the viewer in a way that invites multiple readings and a wide range of personal interpretations.
Lois Dickson received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art and Honors in Drawing from the New York Studio School’s full time Certificate Program.
She has exhibited extensively in the Northeast, including seven solo shows at John Davis Gallery, NY; two solo shows at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, NY; a solo show at North Point Gallery, NY; and The Witherspoon Gallery, NJ. Selected Group Exhibitions include: Art & Democracy IV Gallery; John Davis Gallery; Nina Nielsen Gallery; Pamela Salisbury Gallery; The Bowery Gallery; The New York Studio School; The Painting Center; and The Prince Street Gallery.
