Dorothy Hood
Known for her expansive compositions that merge elements of abstraction and color field painting, Dorothy Hood is considered a trailblazer among female Modernists for her epically scaled works. Raised in Houston, Hood studied at RISD and the Art Students League of New York before settling in Mexico City in 1941. Over the next two decades, she became immersed in the city’s rich bohemian culture and befriended well-known Mexican artists and intellectuals and European émigrés. Through poet and activist Pablo Neruda she met the muralist José Clemente Orozco, who became her mentor. Hood returned to Houston in the early 1960s, where she produced some of her most celebrated canvases. Although she received the support of influential critics and curators, including Clement Greenberg and Philippe de Montebello, she never received the widespread acclaim of her female peers like Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner—due in part to her absence from the New York art world—and her contributions to modern art are often undeservingly overlooked.
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Solo Shows
2020
Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne II, Deborah Colton Gallery
Earth & Space: Dorothy Hood and Daniel Kayne, Deborah Colton Gallery
DOROTHY HOOD: COLLAGE, McClain Gallery
2019
Dorothy Hood Illuminated Earth, McClain Gallery
2018
Cosmic Attraction: Works by Dorothy Hood and Don Redman, Deborah Colton Gallery
Group shows
2021
DALLAS ART FAIR 2021, McClain Gallery
EDGE OF THE DIVINE, McClain Gallery
2020
2020 Dallas Art Fair Online, McClain Gallery
2019
Lunar Landing: 50 Years on the Moon, McClain Gallery
2018
The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction, Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Fair booths
2022
McClain Gallery at Dallas Art Fair 2022, McClain Gallery
2019
McClain Gallery at UNTITLED Art, Miami Beach 2019, McClain Gallery