{"id":18596,"date":"2024-08-23T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=18596"},"modified":"2024-08-23T19:10:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T23:10:59","slug":"double-or-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/18596","title":{"rendered":"Double or nothing . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dixon appears again at Art Space Versailles<\/a>, hopeful that a buyer might be interested in the collage artwork called Renewal<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I scheduled a double event this week and it was a fine way to saddle up and ride a momentum. I was eager to point out that Renewal<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was on consignment at Art Space Versailles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The studio piece began with my musing on the cyclic life of trees, which makes sense because I\u2019m endlessly fascinated by them and since I work primarily in papers after all. Most collage artists are scroungers at heart, so I had turned to my stash, searching for potential ingredients. I found more than enough for a 12×12-inch canvas and intuitively assembled a \u201cground\u201d of these found images. I think that toward the end of the process it had became as much an abstract composition as an interpretation of my thematic idea. I didn\u2019t want it to appear too abstract or purposely surreal, so, at the closing stage, I crafted a literal seedling from individual paper components, more in the representational manner that I use for collage en plein air.<\/em> I guess one could say that the culminating element pictured the birth of a tree, but, as with all life cycles, who can say when the beginning or ending actually occurs. The art itself is re-purposed paper, a clear ending for a tree, at least until inevitable decomposition takes place, and then another cycle of renewal carries on. <\/p>\n

In contrast, the exercise in spontaneity featured below had no preconceived intent and originated as a demo miniature during my exhibition-related workshop at Paul Sawyier Public Library<\/a> in Frankfort on Tuesday. I refined and completed it last night during the appearance in Versailles as a guest artist. The unfinished piece had been immediately titled by a workshop participant after the primary ingredients were juxtaposed, and I just couldn\u2019t top her suggestion!<\/p>\n

It joins countless other artworks that tip the Pop-ist hat to Andy Warhol (Campbell\u2019s Soup) or Ray Johnson (Lucky Strike). But the grandfather of Pop Art was Kurt Schwitters<\/a>. So much of contemporary collage is, in essence, an homage to the German innovator, and I never tire of working in the Merz tradition that he pioneered a hundred years ago.
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Kick the Can<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage experiment by J A Dixon
\n7 x 8.5 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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