Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealism. Her work is often heavily layered, preserved and obscured in acrylic, then re-interpreted as a unified composition in chalk pastels. Her practice involves documenting from direct observation her surroundings, collections of objects, people encountered, and sometimes fantastical imaginings. These drawings and paintings are the raw material of which much of this work is comprised. She also paints in oil, watercolor, and ink, and experiments in many other mediums. Erin received her Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from Georgia State University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design. Recent exhibitions include the Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA in 2023, Artfields, Lake City, SC in 2022, LaGrange Museum of Art, LaGrange, GA in 2022 (winning a People’s Choice Award,) Drawing Discourse at UNC-Asheville in 2021 and 2019 (winning an Award of Distinction in 2019,) and her work has been published in a number of catalogs and held in private collections. She is a Senior Lecturer of Drawing and Painting at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, GA. She was born in Grand Bassa County, Liberia, and grew up in Middlebury, Connecticut and Penang, Malaysia. She has lived somewhere in Georgia most of her adult life and exhibits work throughout the Southeast.