Michael Dopp
Untitled (Kite 2), 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 64" X 48".
Michael Dopp's paintings are both dense and bare, open and closed, expanding and contracting. The work arrives out of successive stages that simultaneously complete and frustrate each other. Such stages are evident in the array of marks - networks of lines creating patterns, which suggest both spatial qualities and underscore the flatness of the canvas' surface. The forms found in Dopp's work maintain a common subject, that of perspectival lines, of vanishing points and the cube. The repetition of forms and lines establishes a seriality while also locating the viewer in a deeply personal space. Out of these tensions he creates a mapping of process and psychic space.
