ANGIE DIXON ARTIST STATEMENT

There are three things you need to know about me.

1. My name is Angie Dixon and I am an artist.

II. I was a writer before I became an artist.

C. I became an artist after an injury left me disabled and largely bedbound.

4. There is no 4.

V. There is another thing, which is that I’m pretty much incapable of being serious for more than five seconds.

I started painting after becoming involuntarily retired by my sudden and profound disability. I expected to find something to do with all my time. What I found was a remarkable transformation in my life.

Once I’m in my chair with my paints out, I am temporarily not disabled. The world disappears and it’s just me and my art.

I started creating small paintings because they were easier to manage. Now I create small works because I believe they’re necessary.

When we think of owning art, we often think of huge, expensive paintings and sculptures in palatial homes.

I think that’s a real shame. Everyone could benefit from some art in their daily spaces. That’s my professional opinion, as an artist. That’s why I paint small pieces, so even someone who’s never bought a piece of art can become an art collector.

As an artist, I generally work on three to five different projects at basically the same time.

Vinyl brings new life to old vinyl records, transforming them from scratched, obsolete trash into art with bold colors, strong brushwork and a frame to contain it all, as much as art can be contained.

Bottled Up takes simple glass bottles and makes them both less than a bottle, because they’re not really usable that way any more, and more than a bottle, because now they’re a piece of art. This project has been exciting and frustrating for the same reasons. I’m finding my way as I go.

Flow is a series of mixed media pieces using alcohol ink, concentrated and pan watercolors, acrylic inks, and fountain pen inks to create paintings that almost move while you’re looking at them. I can neither confirm nor deny that they’re magical and actually do move.

Bold is my ongoing, apparently permanent project of abstraction, which is to say lots of colors and texture on raw and primed canvas and canvas panels.

Circle Game is a variation on Abstraction, with the canvas in embroidery hoops instead of on traditional stretcher bars. This is partly because good canvases are expensive and I can’t stretch my own, but mostly because I think it’s really cool.

I create art because I love creating art. I share my art because I genuinely think everyone needs art, especially art that fits snugly into the life they’re living

I might also share my art to create more space in my home to create new art, and to make money for more art supplies to create new art. But again, I can neither confirm nor deny.