Sophia Dixon Dillo is a light artist and jewelry designer. She is best known for incorporating light as an active medium into quiet and delicate works made from transparent, translucent, or reflective materials, both on a large and small scale. She uses minimal, all-over patterning so the viewer’s attention can shift from the particular to the whole, and back again. Giving each part equal weight emphasizes the appearance of the piece as a whole. The works are experiential–they require the viewer’s presence in order to witness the ever-shifting effects of light and movement on the pieces.

She writes: “I am fascinated with how light can be both visible and invisible at the same time. Light is always present, yet not always seen. My works play with this internal contradiction in the nature of light. I combine transparent, translucent, reflective, and opaque layers with all-over patterning to create works that incorporate light and shadow on and between the surfaces….My works are contingent upon their environment and are meant to create their own space. Many have a commanding size, yet quiet and gentle presence. They request an attentive uprightness in the viewer. Their space invites viewers to step out of their usual mind of narrative thinking and into the field of mind itself. In my experience, it is this field that can show us how to be intimate with the world of form, how to be nourished by things as they arise.”

Dillo’s work is exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. In 2015, she completed an installation for the Calvin Klein Collection on Madison Avenue in New York made from 83 miles of copper thread. Her solo exhibit, Emergence, was chosen as a “Pick of the Week” by ArtWeek.LA. She was recognized as a notable artist in Colorado with an invitation to participate in Colorado Women in Abstraction at the Center for Visual Arts in Denver. She was born in San Rafael, California, and she lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

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