| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Eric Maxwell Dodd earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma in Education from the University of Durham, England, a Master of Arts from Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), and completed postgraduate work at the University of Toronto before he became a Professor of Art at the University of Calgary, where he served until retirement. The wood sculptures he produced throughout his career juxtapose material and mythical elements into surrealist situations and realities.
Dodd has exhibited nationally with the Alberta College of Art and Design and University of Calgary Faculty and with the Alberta Society of Artists. His work has been shown in the Expo ‘67 Canadian Pavilion (Montreal, QC), the National Gallery (Ottawa, ON), the Glenbow Museum (formerly the Glenbow-Alberta Art Gallery, Calgary, AB), and at the Annual Exhibition of Sunshine Village Art. Dodd contributed a sculpture toward an effort to raise funds for Triangle Gallery, a landmark visual arts centre and public art gallery in Calgary so named for its proposed and occupied space in the Calgary Municipal Building. Public and corporate collections, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Halifax, NS), the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (Edmonton, AB), and Devonian Foundation (Calgary, AB) hold his work, as well as private collections across Canada.
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