Knife el Classico Artwork

I could draw before I could talk. My kindergarten teacher called my parents and said, "Have you seen this child draw?" They had. It lumped onto one child of five and came not only from my father's deft surgical hands but two grandmothers, both artists. My drawings and paintings for many years now are created with a digital brush and canvas. I graduated from the Lamar Dodd School of Art from the University of Georgia and moved to New York City in 1981 where my early paintings increasingly filled with pixels as a response to our information age. I took one of the earliest courses in digital art in 1984 at The School of Visual Arts, which set me on a course that is continuing to this day. I cultivated these skills working as an Art Director at The Wall Street Journal Online and other corporations at the World Trade Center, while participating in some of the earliest international fine art exhibitions of digital art. Meanwhile, my work was acquired by corporate collections (AT&T). However my classical underpinnings are ever evident. It has always remained about painting, drawing and storytelling. After 9/11, a period of deep spiritual introspection led me to explore classical iconography and apply it to the new media landscape. This resulted in the discovery of a new form of animated web painting and storytelling, a DIMONscape®; a single painting that is many paintings, combining infinitesimal layers of imagery and words. One of these works has recently been acquired by the 9/11 Memorial Museum for their permanent collection and is also in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As I look back on my early oil paintings on canvas, I can see how the line work and color so clearly align with my recent digital works. They are of one accord, the same artist"”one uses the tools of the past to honor a continuing legacy while the other looks to inform and imagine the future; to lead others into an understanding of where we are and how we are evolving . . . I feel strongly that it is time for a new call, which while ancient must be realized anew, for artists to bring sense, meaning, and yes, hope, to the wondrous age we live in using the tools of our time to do so. A southerner who calls New York home since 1981, my husband and I divide our time between Manhattan and Shelter Island. www.rozdimon.com