Veronique Wantz Gallery is excited to present Minnesota-based artist Dodie Logue's first solo show, Different Stripes, at the gallery (April 12 - May 3, 2025).

Logue's Different Stripes exhibition highlights recent paintings of multi-colored stripes and bands of bold hues that stretch and glide across the canvas. Explored in various styles and sizes, Logue explains her striated abstractions: "Stripes are immediately recognizable but don't mean anything on their own: they give me a structure but are open to interpretation, which is important to me." Logue works out of an old dairy barn in Delano, Minnesota. The barn is a special haven for Logue, who converted the structure into a light-filled artist studio overlooking lush fields of tall sinewy grasses and abundant wildflowers. Logue also spends a few months each year in the American Southwest, where the dry desert and its unique array of flora and fauna also inform her work. As a former guide for a nature travel company, Dodie's natural surroundings remain a constant inspiration for her paintings. "I am greatly influenced by nature and textiles, but anything I encounter may inform my work; I collaborate with materials, a particular season, a day, a mood, a world event…I hope there is some humor and joy in my paintings.”

About the artist: 

Dodie Logue attended the University of Minnesota and later earned an MFA from Bard College in New York. Logue has been the recipient of several artist grants, including a 2020 Artist Learning Grant from the Central MN Arts Board and a Creative Support Grants for Individual artists from the MN State Arts Board in 2021 and 2022. Her work was acquired by the Minnesota Museum of American Art and Vision Northland Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. Additionally, Dodie and her sister, Mary Logue, a poet, have collaborated on publications: Trees (2013) and Terra Incognito (2024), which include poems by Mary and accompanying artwork by Dodie.

Dodie Logue's work is found in many private collections, both locally and nationally.