Student Sculpture Illuminates Morgan Library
When in Morgan Library this week, take a moment to look up. "Forming Light II” by CSU student Sophia Dixon is now located above the west rotunda. Created with fishing line, the sculpture attempts to examine a frequently used space in a new way. In the artist’s own words, the work is an exploration into “space prior to emotion, prior to language, a sense of aliveness that underlies temporal arising of mind formations such as names, thoughts, ideas, feelings, associations, emotions.”
The work is viewable from all three floors of the building and will be on display through Thursday, January 31.
Artist Bio: Sophia Dixon is studying as an MFA painting student at Colorado State University, and is currently doing an independent study in sculpture. She has studied Thangka painting in Nepal, and pursued her interest in the arts at the Lacoste Ecole des Arts in France. She has also studied theology in Switzerland, and Buddhism as an artist resident at a Zen Center in Germany.
She has exhibited with the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Lincoln Gallery at Naropa University, and the CSU Curfman Gallery. Her work is influenced by her meditation practice, as well as by artists such as Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Ernesto Neto, and the writings of Agnes Martin. She is interested in all forms of art but chooses to work primarily in abstraction because it allows her to “strip away the layers of meaning in which our everyday lives are embedded.”