Drew Dodge's exhibition "Earth Song" in 2024 presents an evolution of his consistent visual style, featuring hybrid dog and human figures. Backgrounds vary from deserts to cosmic landscapes, incorporating fetish objects like skulls and flowers. Influenced by American art history and pop culture, Dodge employs figures with recognizable traits, such as droopy ears and cartoon-like features. The latest series introduces even larger formats and new creature designs, reinforcing themes of metamorphosis and initiatory narratives, drawing on mythological and uncanny influences.
Drew Dodge's first exhibition "Earth Song" in 2024 was a jolt of gentle, unsettling and goofy strangeness, marking his development as an artist.
His visual vocabulary includes hybrid dog and human figures, desert and cosmic backgrounds, and fetish objects like skulls and flowers.
Drew Dodge's work reflects influences from American art history, particularly Martin Johnson Heade and Georgia O'Keefe, as well as pop culture and queer elements.
The new series showcases even larger formats and introduces new creatures, retaining characteristics such as droopy ears and absent visible genitalia.
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