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Lucy Dodd's new paintings teem with life and movement, relaying moments of spontaneous fun, chaotic action and alchemical energy. A panoply of forms—orbs, arches, streaks, bodily imprints—coalesce and morph from one edge of the composition to another, at times at a monumental scale as in works such as Birth of a Living Heart (2021) and Heart's Recovery (2021). In all their exuberance and diversity, the paintings in Heart Overture—Dodd's latest exhibition with Sprüth Magers and her first at the Los Angeles gallery—also hold within them a sense of evolution and becoming.

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