Adrienne Dixon

Be it shiny, dull, big, or small, people have an impulsive desire to consume. American
culture is obsessed with materialism and plastics are everywhere.

At the heart of my artistic practice is the desire to make an object that can visually compete with the vast inventory of throw away objects on the marketplace. I make paintings that simplify forms and patterns found in our overly stuffed visual world. I work with everyday geometry and the human form to structure my obsessively tedious and
highly crafted objects. My work both confronts and embraces materialism, reflecting on our fixation on consumable products that Western culture so rapidly engages in. Through a wide variety of mixed media, I create tactile, playful, paintings that function like eye candy, seducing the viewer with color, gloss, and glitter.

Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA, Painting
Vermont Studio Center, Artist Residency

Solo Exhibitions
2016 ConsumO’matic, Off the Square Gallery,
Leonardtown, MD
2017 ConsumO'matic 2.0, Lexington Park Public
Library, Lexington Park, MD
2017 Open Studios, Yellow Door Art Studios,
Leonardtown, MD

Juried Group Exhibitions
2017 MAGNITUDE SEVEN, Manifest Gallery,
Cincinannti, OH
2017 On The Move, SCAD Gutstein Gallery, Savannah,
GA
2016 Games: from Marbles to Minecraft, Annmarie
Sculpture Gardens and Art Center (Smithsonian
affiliate), Dowell, MD
2016 Small Wonders, Maryland Federation of Art Circle
Gallery, Annapolis, MD

Invitational Group Exhibitions
2017 1460 WALLMOUNTABLES, D.C. Arts Center,
Washington D.C.
2017 Annual Invitational Exhibition, North End Gallery,
Leonardtown, MD
2016 Marketplace, Off the Square Gallery, Leonardtown,
MD
2016 First Friday Art Walk, Dunkin Donuts,
Leonardtown, MD
2016 The Art of Communication: Curated by Hannah
McCoy, Yellow Door Art Studios, Leonardtown, MD
2014 Food and Drink, Council for the Arts, Jacksonville,
NC
2013 Wee Little Trees, Council for the Arts...