Casey Kaplan
Jason Dodge | Village Voice
Dodge, who was born in 1969, in Newtown, Pennsylvania, has lived and worked in Berlin since 2003. He is of that wing of sculptors who, over the past century or so, have eschewed creating objects (think of Giacometti clawing at clay as he searched out his attenuated figures, or Richard Serra fabricating space-torqueing steel slabs) to instead transform the workaday into singular revelations. Where a contemporary artist such as B. Wurtz might repurpose plastic shopping bags into compelling (and often funny) sculptures that reveal unexpected beauty in our throwaway culture, Dodge aims at a broader aura, a target that, by definition, can never be hit.