"Face to Face" Portraits by William Dixon
The exhibit runs from December 2nd - 30th, with an Artist Reception Saturday December 3rd, 1 - 2:30 pm.
William Dixon returns to the Crowell Art Gallery with his new exhibit titled "Face to Face". This year Dixon welcomes you to the world of portraiture; the art of conveyance, the confirmation of existence, and the role of the photographer in connecting subject and viewer. "The appeal of portrait photography is that, for a second, you have created a permanent record of a person at a certain place at a certain time and experience the face to face flow of communication between the 2-dimensional image and the person observing it." What is a portrait? "To me it is a photograph of a person, usually "yearbook" pose, although it could easily be an image of one's back, hands, or feet - and is not necessarily restricted to a certain perspective. Indeed, many excellent portraits [ Karsh's photo of the Spanish musician Pablo Casals ] have no face whatsoever, perhaps forcing the viewer to create a face on their own".
Dixon arrived in Vermont from Canada in 1987, and became active in photography after retiring from Landmark College in 2008. For the past ten years he has been focusing on alternative processes of printing (cyanotype, salt, vandyke, palladium, carbon). One wall of the gallery will be devoted to the portrait prints using these alternative printing methods.