About the Artist

Elizabeth Dimon is a New York artist who has worked in film, photography, and most recently, sculptural collage. She has discovered her own visual language by transforming two dimensional media into three dimensions. She is very interested in how this transformation affects perspective, form and scale, and often intentionally distorts them. The works become architectural in nature, and are meant to be explored as one might explore an ancient ruin or dilapidated old building. The viewer wanders through and acts as voyeur, peeping through cut out holes and windows and discovering hidden secrets. 

The themes explored vary with each piece but motifs reappear throughout the body of work. Nature and the subconscious are always present as is a sense of loss, intimated by the forms of figures cut out and missing but the shapes of which suggest ghosts of the past and layers of history.

She derives her material from personal postcards, photographs and other ephemera, as well as from pages torn out of books, and random objects found on the street. Her method exposes the source material, so that text or snippets of other images often appear on the reverse side of images, adding another layer and hinting at her working process. The work is meant to be viewed from every possible angle, front and verso, with all the seams showing.

Finally, there is a narrative quality to the work, each one telling a story, at times playful, at times ominous, but always with a sense of mystery.