CHRISTY DICKINSON

Christy Dickinson's abstract paintings are a dialogue with color, inviting viewers to inhabit chromatic space as active participants rather than passive observers. Utilizing a large-scale format and a signature, rhythmic brushstroke, she explores how color relationships and geometric forms create visual tensions that resonate on both a psychological and architectural level. Her process alternates between a physical, full-body engagement to a meditative conversation between the artist and the evolving surface where meaning is discovered through the art of creation. Her brushstrokes are a visual poetry—gestural marks that dance and flow with their own rhythm, speaking to both personal expression and collective memory.

My work is an invitation to stand where the earth and the human hand understand one another, offering a vibrant, living records of a landscape that continues to speak and a spirit that continues to listen.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Christy Dickinson is an abstract painter going between St. Paul, Minnesota, and Santa Fe, New Mexico whose work draws profound inspiration from the architecture, land, and colors of the American Southwest. Her artistic vision was shaped by a transformative residency at the Jen Tough Gallery in Santa Fe. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the College of Visual Arts and Masters in Liberal Studies from Hamline University, along with participant in the 2021 Women’s Art Institute at St. Catherine University led by Pat Olson. She has had numerous solo exhibitions across the Midwest and works in groups exhibitions across the United States. Here work resides in private collections in Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, Colorado, Arizona, Washington D.C., and New Mexico.