Doddo (the pseudonym under which Dorina Nicoleta Crișu creates) has made her mark on the artistic scene through important exhibitions and renowned collaborations. Her works have been exhibited at Elite Prof Art Gallery at Athenee Palace Hilton Bucharest (2018), at the Masquerade Style Art Exhibition at Grand Hotel Continental (2019), and at El Deco Gallery in Bucharest (2022) under the theme Entropia. Among those who appreciate her works are passionate collectors and business figures. Currently, Doddo has over 200 works displayed in private collections in Romania and abroad.

Training

She has been painting continuously since 2015, and her artistic beginnings have early roots, being inspired since childhood, despite being denied access to painting. Perseverant and self-taught, she is always receptive to new challenges and explores numerous techniques. Due to intense self-exploration, hard work, and influences from modern art, she has developed a unique style that is deeply emotional and healing in nature.

Style and Technique

Her works have a raw and visceral energy, an expression of unfiltered emotions, translated onto canvas through a technique that combines figurative with abstract elements, and street art accents. Doddo frequently uses high-quality acrylics, applied to canvas and finished with a protective layer, for authentic texture and increased durability.

Themes

Her work explores the theme of human fragmentation, conveyed through emotionally or symbolically charged images, distorted bodies and faceless forms, illustrating how the modern world tears apart the individual's inner unity. This imagistic dissection of body and soul is, in her vision, a reflection of the "confused deformities" of contemporary life. Her paintings are an invitation to step into this "bazaar of illicit, illegal, immoral, cheap, and repeatable dreams" – a world of complex emotions, intensely intimate and provocative.

Influences and Movements

Her art draws from expressionism and abstract expressionism, as well as from the influences of De Kooning, Gauguin, Picasso, Dalí, Modigliani, Basquiat, and Joan Miró. These artists have left their mark on her creations, each contributing to the construction of a style that mixes figurative with abstract in a manner that evokes street art and urban dynamics.

Vision for the Future

Doddo intends for her art to become a purification for the soul, a personal "magic" that transcends the canvas and penetrates the viewer's heart. Her specific signature (now revealed for the first time) is the inclusion of orange in every painting, representing her gratitude and inner search – a spiritual journey and tribute to the creative potential of every being.

It is the continuous exploration of the creative force within that animates her art, but also her goal:

"Lord, what am I doing with these hands?... Magic. I want them to be drops of magic, to transmit healing."

Exhibitions

• 2018 – Elite Prof Art Gallery – Athenee Palace Hilton, Bucharest
• 2019 – Masquerade Style Art Exhibition – Grand Hotel Continental, Bucharest
• 2022 – Entropia Exhibition Opening – El Deco Gallery, Bucharest
• 2023 – Painting Exhibition "Sins in Heaven" - Ram Gallery, Bucharest
• 2024 – Art, People, Places Exhibition Opening - Soleil Gallery, Bucharest