BIO
Roz Dimon grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She inherited the ability to draw from both her grandmothers; a trait that was recognized by many; including her first grade teacher. Armed with excellent schooling from The University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art (including study abroad in Italy) she drove her Volkswagon VW to New York City where almost immediately her naturally fluid oils began to fill with electronic squares. This was in the 1980s, long before anyone had ever heard of pixels.
Taking the first course in Digital Art at The School of Visual Arts, Dimon went on to become a pioneer in new media art in what was then the rising 'dotcom' in downtown New York's "Silicon Alley," leading the "media" charge for such corporate titans as WSJ.com, Deloitte., Estee Lauder and more; all the while showing her work internationally and curating shows in New York's fine art arena (curator of code, cover of Forbes Magazine; eight works in AT&Ts collection and more) and getting the support of the late Walter Liedtke, curator of European Paintings at The Metropolitan, among others.
After a very dark period post 9/11, Dimon began to intensely study medieval iconography. Its unique relationship to the viewer influenced her to create a new form of art and storytelling called a DIMONscape. Five of these works are now installed in permanent collections in New York alone, including The 9/11 Memorial Museum. A recent commission by The Children’s Museum of Long Island during COVID featured an interactive work she co-created with Latinx children working entirely via ZOOM and was supported by grants from the NEA, NYSFA and IMLS, while another entailed taking 300 years of history and making it into a single work of art whose story is accessible by all with an iPHONE or iPAD.
Dimon enjoys presenting and has spoken at numerous conferences and presentations, including Art Historian and Professor Gail Levin’s Classes at Baruch, as well as an Immersive New Media Conference at Yale University’s CCAM among others.
Her theological leanings remain an integral part of her pop-culture Americana subject matter ranging from Coca Cola to Jesus, the stock market to guns, and more recently portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Dimon is proud to be a member of the Carter Burden Gallery in Chelsea, New York City, The National Association of Women Artists, Techspressionism, and One Spirit Learning Alliance where she graduated as an ordained Interfaith Minister in 2015.
more at: DIMONscapes.com and ArtStory.net
social media: @rozolution