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until 28.06. | #4670ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider shows from Thursday, 1. May (Opening: 30.04) the duo-exhibition NEXT BUT TWO by the artists Lois Dodd und Anna Grath.
A withered leaf, a curved stem of a spring blossom, a shady slope under a wintery blanket of snow – Lois Dodd (born 1927) has been depicting her immediate surroundings in her paintings for over seventy years. The artist, who lives in New York City and on the Mid-Coast in Maine, works predominantly en plein air, documenting forests, urban architecture and interiors on the Lower East Side as well as rural landscapes around the Delaware Water Gap. Her oil and watercolour paintings follow a realistic colour principle, but are characterised by a reduced pictorial structure. In a conversation with Bill Maynes (2007), Dodd emphasised: “Not everyone really sees what’s around them. I try to look closely and capture what I see.”
Lois Dodd, Sunroom Door in Rain, Spring, 2021, oil on Masonite, 12 1/8 x 9 7/8 in © Lois Dodd, Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery, New York
Anna Grath (*1985) develops a counter-position to Dodd’s painting in her sculptures. She works with found materials – branches, wire, glass, scraps of fabric and clothing, nylon stockings or ribbons – and combines them into delicate, gestural constructions. The objects stretch, bend, hang or stretch, creating tensions between stability and movement. Grath sees her work as a ‘negotiation between dependence and resistance’ and thus shows the physical presence of the materials.
Anna Grath, Aube, 2025, metal, plastik, 210 x 170 cm © Anna Grath | Photo: Robert Schlossnickel
In the exhibition NEXT BUT TWO (duration: 12 May – 30 August 2025, Galerie X, Berlin), Dodd’s observational painting and Grath’s dynamic object work are shown side by side. Both positions take the everyday as their starting point and reveal the complexity of very simple forms through formal reduction and a focus on materials.
Anna Grath, Helin (detail), 2025, glass, plastic, textiles | Photo: Robert Schlossnickel
Opening: Wednesday, 30. April 2025, from 6 to 8 pm
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 01. May – Saturday, 28. June 2025
To the Gallery
Image caption title: Lois Dodd, Studio Still Life, 2023, oil on panel, 7 7/8 x 16 in / 20 x 40.5 cm, © Lois Dodd, Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery, New York
Exhibition NEXT BUT TWO – Haverkampf Leistenschneider | Contemporary Art – | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
