ZOYA DIXON ARTS
I’M AN ABSTRACT ARTIST BASED ON THE CENTRAL COAST OF CALIFORNIA.
I AM PLEASED TO INTRODUCE A COLLABORATIVE LINE WITH MY BROTHER, SAM LOPATA.
TOGETHER, WE CALL OURSELVES SEEKUS.
UPCOMING SHOWS
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FUSION II, 72” X 72”
Our Story
Though they grew up less than two miles apart in Chicago, siblings and artist collaborators Sam Lopata and Zoya Lopata Dixon, known together as SEEKUS, first met in Los Angeles in 2021, after the passing of their father, Daniel.
Process
The artistic process is multi-faceted and layered; we have to time and strategize our pieces, and often have several going at the same time. We first collaborate remotely using design software; we find that our best work occurs when we have some kind of plan. When we are able to work in person, we prep a canvas with a color, and Sam then hand-writes background content using acrylic ink. This can be pulled from any source: literature, or personal memos, or poetry, or Ai-generated. Zoya then designs, traces, and paints abstract shapes onto the piece. Sand is then sifted over the wet shapes, and allowed to dry. After an additional coat of paint and or varnish, the work is complete.
Our Work
What does it mean to be human? In our last show, ABSTRACT STACKS, we explored the intersection of the analog and the digital space, where artificial intelligence is asked to answer questions relating to the human experience. Can artificial intelligence provide us with insight into ourselves?
The show examined overarching themes of humanity, machine intelligence, and climate change. For the bulk of the work, text was generated by a large language model from prompts submitted by individuals; the text from NAUTILUS II, however, was pulled from Darwin’s On The Origin of Species, a scientific document from which we are able draw conclusions regarding evolutionary biology and hence, our own provenance as humans. Referencing this document in parallel to artificial intelligence provided an interesting framework to ask, Where did we come from? And where are we going?
