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Ken Dixon

 

 

 

 

Ken Dixon, Men Are All Alike, 1981, gum print and mixed media on paper, 30" x 66"

Preceding Order and Disorder, Works by Ken Dixon

The museum will be exhibiting part of its Permanent Collection, a group of works by Lubbock artist Ken Dixon. On display will be 6 large, multi-panel pieces, which constitute part of a portfolio of the artist’s work that was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Mid-America Fellowship in Painting in 1986. In 2004 the artist offered this work to the museum as a gift.

Working on watercolor paper coated with a photosensitive emulsion, Dixon combines photography, painting and drawing to produce these mixed media monoprints. Working with 2 or 3 separate panels for each piece, Dixon not only combines mediums but also combines text with imagery to create his enigmatic art. Each piece includes a story that is paired with different and disparate images creating a visually complex and thought provoking work. In essence, they are mysteries---puzzles for the viewer to contemplate and come to his or her own conclusion.

Ken Dixon was born in St. Clair, Missouri. His undergraduate art studies were at Drury College and Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. He obtained his MFA degree in Studio Art at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville in 1968. He is Professor Emeritus at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Ken is represented by William Campbell Contemporary Art in Fort Worth and the Robert Hughes Gallery in San Antonio. His travels include: England, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Mallorca, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Crete, Mexico, Jamaica and the Hawaiian Islands.

Ken has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-America Fellowship in Painting, Prints and Drawing. His work appears in such public collections as the Boulder, Colorado Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri; the Tweed Museum in Duluth, Minnesota; the Modern Art Museum in Forth Worth, Texas and the San Antonio Museum of Art.