Dorothy Hood

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

McClain Gallery at Dallas Art Fair 2019, McClain Gallery

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