December 2024 &
January 2025
Historic Lobby
Main Level
Monday – Friday 10am-5pm,
Saturday 10am-2pm
Please note that the Paramount will be closed December 25 & January 1 through January 5
Always Free to Attend. Always Inspiring!
Artist Statement
The purpose of my work is to share color and bring the joy of original art to spaces. Color perception varies from culture to circumstance and from person to person. My paintings represent how I see color, shape, and line daily. I work intuitively with no preconceived notion of the finished piece. They are expressive with my whole body in the larger works like those from the southwest dreams collection and meditative in the small works of my brushstroke poetry series. As I build the painting, it speaks to and guides me like a back-and-forth dialogue. This requires trust in the process and the ability to accept change. Several works are created at a time and as they are in the studio they tell me if they are complete. My time in the studio is a process of discovery. The color palettes are rooted in the primaries which represent body, emotion, and mind and there is harmony between these elements. The gestural strokes are repeated and create vibrant interactions. leads me to explore how it affects one’s well-being, and how the scale contributes to this response. You will find my door open when working to invite visitors to enter and engage in conversation and interaction, as an extroverted artist this feeds my creative soul. The paintings in this exhibition include those of my southwest dreaming collection and recent works following my visit to Santa Fe.
About the Artist
Christy Dickinson is a visual artist who celebrates the interaction of color. She started Anansi Studio after pursuing a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Painting at College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. She participated in the month-long Women’s Art Intensive at Saint Catherine’s University in St. Paul provided the space and community to expand her ideas which culminated in a meditative installation that premiered at the 2021 Women’s Art Institute Exhibition. This was a jumpstart to enhancing her studio practice and she was recently one of 38 artists selected for the What Fierce Looks Like: Artists of the Women’s Art Institute group exhibition at Form + Content Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. You will find her work in the MIdwest in group exhibitions, festivals, and open studio events. In 2022, she had a solo exhibition, Vibrant Interactions,,at the Bismarck Art & Galleries in Bismarck, ND. After years of working as an arts administrator in rural and urban communities across the Midwest, she experienced the importance of being part of a creative community. Here studio is back in St. Paul she started her career at the artist community of F-O-K Studios where she leads building-wide events to uplift her fellow creatives and their work.
This solo exhibition at the Paramount Center for the Arts is the first exhibition near her hometown of Waite Park. Her passion for the arts began taking numerous art classes at Apollo High School. Christy Dickinson’s work spans 30 years and she is excited about what the future holds as she explores the reach of her into New Mexico following a recent residency at AIR Studios in Santa Fe. She holds a Masters in Liberal Studies from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN, has served as a panelist for the MN State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, North Dakota Council on the Arts, and South Dakota Arts Council, and past board member of Red Wing Arts. Alongside being an artist, she is a single mother who is excited about her daughter’s future as an artist as well. Her studio door is always open to engage in conversations and interactions, as it feeds her creative soul as an extroverted artist.
Artist featured: Christy Dickinson
Purchase Location: Gallery Gift Shop (Main Level)
HOURS*
Monday – Friday: 10AM – 5PM, and Saturday: 10AM – 2PM
Please note that the Paramount will be closed December 25 & January 1 through January 5