Bronze Sculpture for Sale
United States
• 1971
Biography
The works of Monica Dixon Gutiérrez de Terán, American by birth and upbringing on her father's side and Asturian on her mother's, oscillate between fleeting skies, unsettling shadows, and a profound luminosity. She paints solitary houses in acrylic, set amidst landscapes of the American heartland, highlighting the precariousness of human constructions beneath the enduring majesty of space and sky. Her experience is one of infinity. Her enigmatic, yet not oppressive, meticulously painted scenes inevitably evoke her compatriots Edward Hopper and his poetics of solitude, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, and all those who have painted the vast American landscapes.
“For many years I have been working on the theme of metaphysical landscapes as a way to find myself. By painting these landscapes, I feel like I am returning to my roots by identifying and physically recreating places that only exist in my mind. They are perhaps a manifestation of nostalgia for the land where I was born."
With her new series of interior architectures, begun in 2015, she shifted her perspective. As Luis Feás Costilla explained during her exhibition at the Borron Art Center in Oviedo, “Monica Dixon stripped the pictorial space of everything she perceived as anecdotal, revealing only the space itself, the essential solitude of the scene, and the light that illuminates it. Her paintings speak of both presence and absence, creating a dialogue between natural and artificial light and filling voids with the sheer vibration of the atmosphere. Through this exploration of light, she ultimately aligns herself with the most celebrated artist of the Light and Space movement, James Turrell, who, with his pieces of projected light, notably the Shallow Space Constructions and his Wedgeworks, challenges the perception of depth and generates the illusion of walls and barriers. Of course, Monica Dixon achieves this through painting, in black and white, and within a space as defined as the canvas itself." Without leaving the canvas, she creates the same illusion of depth, and by playing with lights and shadows, planes and perspectives, she forces the viewer's participation in silent scenes that take place in a generally dark and closed room, almost blind, with few possibilities for escape.
“Over the years, I became interested in minimalism and empty spaces: just architecture and light, so that purity contrasts with darkness. I like the feeling of bright light coming from outside and its effects on the interior. That's how I started painting my interiors."
Monica Dixon has received numerous awards and distinctions in Spain. She exhibits in Spain, the United States, France, Sweden, and Singapore.
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