NPR/Long Island radio interview "In The Morning with Bonnie Grice ... here I discuss my show "Information Woman,http://www.infowoman.us currently at The Grace Institute http://www.graceinstitute.org in Manhattan (2nd Avenue 64/65), August 11-Sept. 26th, open Mon.-Fri., 9-5. Opening is Wed. night, 9/10, 5:30-7pm. Show spans a period of 27 years from earliest Information Paintings (oil on canvas) to most recent DIMONscapesTM. Also on this broadcast we discuss issues of art/faith and what I feel is the greatest calling for artists in this age of information... to bring access, meaning, enlightenment to a culture besieged by an onslaught of visual information.
Link:
http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/national/local-national-756219.mp3
Roz Dimon, aka “rozolution”
We're in a new age - the "Gutenberg press" of imagery according to "rozolution" who traded in her oil paints for an IBM with 4 colors as early as 1984. Now she loads her Wacom brush with millions of colors, photos, text, even video -- on a Mac canvas that holds thousands of layers of information that is "flatter-than-flat."
As she says, "it's downright spiritual."
An early and innovative participant in the digital art underground, Roz's work has been shown from New York City to Japan, although the art landscape is changing rapidly and as she puts it "the new palette is Photoshop and the new gallery is the web."
Roz has spoken on NPR about the ongoing digital revolution, curated a blockbuster digital exhibition "code" for Ricco Maresca Gallery (1995) and most recently had a work "Pale Male: A Pilgrimage," purchased by Walter Liedtke, (2009) a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Increasingly for Roz, the material intersects the spiritual intersects the digital. When people want to know more about her work, she invites them to http://artstory.net and http://dimonscapes.com, and beyond that, to her studio in Shelter Island, New York, where the story is excitingly visible, from early days of oil-on-canvas to her latest interactive creations.
A graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art*, New York City has been home since 1981. She and her husband, James Dawson, an expert in Information Technology, also live in Shelter Island, New York.
Michael Connor