Embrace: Paintings by Ken Dixon From the Early 21st Century

April 2017

The exhibition includes seventeen paintings created by Ken Dixon between 2000 and 2012. Dixon, a professor emeritus of the School of Art of Texas Tech University, has steadfastly explored the intersections of chaos theory, geology, neuroscience, landscape history and art history. His paintings fuse these varied disciplines into composite layers upon layers of overlapping images that reward thoughtful viewing.

Of particular interest in this exhibition is a group of paintings that exemplify Dixon's ongoing investigations of the 19th century American landscape painters know as the Hudson River School. Dixon has made numerous trips to the northeastern United States to study the existing landscape of that region and compare his observations with paintings of the same locations painted in the mid 1800s. The exhibition also shares Dixon's writings about his visits to the various sites.

All of the artworks in the exhibition are from the Museum of Texas Tech University's art collection and were donated in the last several years.