With a characteristic swerve from the conventional, Lois Dodd’s “Pink Scabiosa, Back View” (2013) presented in the Alexandre Gallery entry hall, is a small canvas depicting the back of a flower. Denied the full complement of its more alluring asset, viewers are instead offered the less glamorous rear elevation, with its sturdy, dependable green stem. We still get to follow Dodd’s treatment of the subject through her deft and uncomplicated brushwork, but the motif, seen from its strange, backstage vantage point, offers a fresh take on a genre too often assumed exhausted. Though its gentle humor is plain and foremost, the painting could also serve as an emblem of the compositional edifice that is Dodd’s unique gift. Moreover, for those of us who follow her work and wish to share our enthusiasm for it, “Pink Scabiosa, Back View” is an apt illustration of the structural integrity at the heart of her painting. (https://hyperallergic.com/106704/the-power-of-three-small-paintings/)