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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.
After taking the first course in Digital Art at the School of Visual Arts, Dimon became a pioneer in new media art during the rise of the dot-com era in downtown New York's "Silicon Alley." She led the digital charge for corporate titans such as WSJ.com, Deloitte, Estée Lauder, and more—all while exhibiting her work internationally and curating shows in New York’s fine art arena. Her achievements include being dubbed a "curator of code," landing the cover of Forbes Magazine, and having eight works acquired by AT&T. She also gained the support of the late Walter Liedtke, curator of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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 public speaking and has presented at numerous conferences and academic settings, including Art Historian Gail Levin’s classes at Baruch College and the Immersive New Media Conference at Yale University’s CCAM. Her theological background also informs much of her work, blending spirituality with pop-culture Americana—ranging from Coca-Cola to Jesus, the stock market to guns, and most recently, portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Currently, Dimon is an active member of the Carter Burden Gallery in Chelsea, the National Association of Women Artists, Techspressionism, and One Spirit Learning Alliance, where she was ordained as an Interfaith Minister in 2015. She continues to pursue new creative paths that spark dialogue across generations, using art as a bridge between technology, spirit, and society.
see more: rozdimon.com
dimonscapes.com
email: roz@rozdimon.com
@rozolution
