The Mayor’s Gallery presents November 3, 2015 – January 3, 2016“Color Burst”

The Mayor’s Gallery presents “Color Burst”

            featuring oil paintings and embroidered collages by Greenwich artist, Carol Nipomnich Dixon

                November 3, 2015 – January 3, 2016 (Reception: Thursday, November 12 from 5 to 7pm)                        

             Government Center 888 Washington Blvd, 10^th fl (888 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT)     

The colorful textured works on view reflect the artist’s emotions, experiences, aesthetic values, and original techniques.

Carol currently is teaching a collage/mixed media course and a critique course at the Greenwich Art Society Studio School and a drawing course through Stamford’s Adult Education Program. Prior to that she taught AP Art History and Studio Art, as well as other history courses, at Greenwich Academy from 1976-2005. During twenty-five summers, she taught art at the Stamford Museum. She also served as a visiting artist at many public schools. A Lifetime Artist Member of the Silvermine Guild of Arts, she has served as juror and curator for area exhibitions. She is President of the Connecticut Pioneer Branch of the National League of American Pen Women and is on the Boards of the Greenwich Art Society and the Art Society of Old Greenwich. She also serves on the PR Committee of the National Association of Women Artists, the Education Committee of the Bruce Museum, and on the Exhibition Committee of the Greenwich Historical Society.

Carol has a BA from Vassar College Phi Beta Kappa, MA from Columbia U., and studied art at Pratt Institute and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Reuben Tam and Leo Manso were among her most influential teachers along with her Russian paternal grandparents — her grandmother who taught her to embroider and her grandfather who gave her fabric remnants from his tailor shop.  Encouragement from her architectural journalist husband, John Morris Dixon, has also been a key influence.