Showcasing Dixon Does It

Dixon's raw materials inventory consists of violins, guitars, piano action racks, printed circuit boards, and boxes of flotsam and jetsam. Enjoy seeing his creations that have taken Cubism off the canvas into the 3rd dimension.

Following my friends around a sporting clay shooting range one day, I began collecting their spent shotgun shell casings and went picking through the trash cans along the way. I never knew that shotgun shells came in so many colors. I was hooked. You can now enjoy them in my latest art series.

Although most people don't get the chance to see them up close, printed circuit boards are  in themselves very intricate artwork depicting tight themes and variation on themes. In his series, I bring circuit boards out into the open as  key elements in a variety of wall sculptures.

Museum reproductions are constructed using a flat panel made of wood as the "canvas." Design elements are glued to the substrate piece-by-piece, layer upon layer. Surfaces are smoothed, carefully blended and primed before color is applied ... all in an attempt to be faithful both to the color palette and brush textures of the original.