{"id":15829,"date":"2022-01-26T13:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=15829"},"modified":"2024-11-15T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T01:31:47","slug":"15829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/15829","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsconnectlex.org\/exhibitions-2022.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>CHANGE OF SEEN<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ExhibitGuide-JADixon.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>collage landscapes by John Andrew Dixon<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 166%; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: gray; padding-left: 22px;\" align=\"left\">curated by Kate Savage, Arts Connect<br \/>\nfor the John G Irvin Gallery at<br \/>\nCentral Bank, Lexington, Kentucky<\/p>\n<p>Below are a pair of small skyscapes that I finished just before hanging \u201cChange of Seen,\u201d my collage exhibition curated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsconnectlex.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arts Connect<\/em><\/a> for a two-level bank gallery in downtown Lexington \u2014 31 works total. A couple of studio miniatures seemed a fitting addition to what coalesced as my first all-landscape display and a retrospective of sorts for my five-year journey into representational collage. All during 2021, I couldn\u2019t take my eyes off the changing sky, or stop thinking about how<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ChangeOfSeen_Review.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ChangeOfSeen_Review.jpg\" title=\"A glowing notice by Kevin Nance for Change of Seen\" width=\"204\" height=\"264\" \/ hspace=\"19\" vspace=10\" align=right \/><\/a> I might interpret it by pasting colored paper, tissue, and reclaimed tea bags. These two pieces are from imagination and memory. I kept layering torn ingredients until I was satisfied with the impression. <\/p>\n<p>Kevin Nance wrote a brief review of the show that was perhaps too flattering. It\u2019s been almost a week since the opening and my feet aren\u2019t fully back on the ground yet. I cannot imagine a more able curator\/impresario than the assiduous Kate Savage, a tireless catalyst for all things ART in our Bluegrass region. As just one of the multiple services she\u2019s offering to help spread the word, her non-profit will sponsor a shopping page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsconnectlex.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Arts Connect website<\/a> during the run of my exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsconnectlex.org\/store\/c26\/John_G_Irvin_Gallery_-_John_Andrew_Dixon.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Please check it out!<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dixon_RoseAtDaybreak.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dixon_RoseAtDaybreak.jpg\" title=\"Rose at Daybreak ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 409px; margin-bottom: 6px; color: gray; padding-left: 44px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Rose at Daybreak<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n6 x 7 inches<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #CC3333; padding-left: 44px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022&nbsp; S O L D<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dixon_SummerSundown.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dixon_SummerSundown.jpg\" title=\"Summer Sundown ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 409px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: gray; padding-left: 44px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Summer Sundown<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n6 x 7 inches<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: #CC3333; padding-left: 44px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022&nbsp; S O L D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANGE OF SEEN collage landscapes by John Andrew Dixon curated by Kate Savage, Arts Connect for the John G Irvin Gallery at Central Bank, Lexington, Kentucky Below are a pair of small skyscapes that I finished just before hanging \u201cChange of Seen,\u201d my collage exhibition curated by Arts Connect for a two-level bank gallery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,633,249],"tags":[90,308,317,557,313,418,318,96,319,632],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15829"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18914,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829\/revisions\/18914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}