Leah Dixon

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Leah Dixonʼs intricately collaged mixed-media paintings bravely investigate the frightening aspects of our reality. Finding herself constantly confronted with media coverage war, Dixon uses her love construction to depict the most tangible evidence of an act of destruction – the bomb. Rejecting the literal or narrative, she draws on her fascination with geometry to break-down and build-up the concept of detonation. Pages torn from recent issues of ArtForum and National Geographic Magazine are carefully sliced into tiles of abbreviated color and imagery, then paneled and layered into strips of abstraction.

While Dixonʼs creative process is itself a quietly meditative act, these hours of meticulous craft culminate in the visual detonation of a loud and destructive force.

Each painting is comprised of countless scale-shifts – fragments expanding simultaneously into the reconfigured concept of an explosion, as interpreted by the mind of an artist. “By exalting in the beauty of an explosion, I divorce myself from the absolute horror of its destruction.”