Artifacts I by Roz Dimon

Original drawing from Roz Dimon's Artifact I series
mixed media on paper
1996-1998
11 x 18 (sight)
 
Artist biography: Roz Dimon has been an innovator in the fine art world of New York City for more than thirty years. She studied in Italy while at The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. She moved to New York in the early 80s to begin working and training in digital media. Dimon has exhibited white-on-black digital drawings of guns printed on canvas at Carter Burden Gallery. The inverted drawings purposefully create an x-ray-like illumination of the subject matter, if not for the viewer to analyze the inner mechanics of the weapon than to see what the object represents to the individual. The employment of digital media unambiguously couples with the subject matter, the drawing of machine with a machine. Dimon explains, “An important part of my process is revealing the paradoxical co-existence of forces; masculine and feminine, evil and good, in these iconic artifacts.”