Ramona artist Stacy Nixon’s “The Gods That Feed Us” is one of 61 artworks selected for the 2022 Artist Alliance Biennial at the Oceanside Museum of Art.
Nixon’s work, a large, 40-by-26-foot piece that combines wax bound on paper with hand-cut stencils and an overlay of pigments and gold leaf, is on display through May 1.
It was chosen out of more than 900 entries for the exhibit, which is held every other year.
“I was very happy and a little surprised,” said Nixon, 40. “That’s a lot of entries and my work is definitely not for everyone. When it doesn’t have a general appeal it’s always nice to be recognized.”
Part of what makes her piece unique is the use of encaustic wax, she said. Instead of working with a typical paint like oil, she heated up beeswax with earth-toned pigments and combined it with genuine gold and silver leaf.
“The idea behind the work, or the feeling it conveys, is my interest in the subconscious links that connect humans to each other and how that operates through time and location,” she said. “It’s definitely about worship of the natural world and how that translates from ancient times until now.”
Ramona artist Stacy Nixon’s artwork fit the Artist Alliance Biennial’s theme of hope and nature.
(Courtesy Stacy Nixon)
The Biennial show features current work by living artists. It contains a variety of media, including paintings, drawings, multimedia artwork, video artwork, sculpture, ceramic and wood, said Katie Dolgov, director of exhibitions and collections at the Oceanside museum.
The juror for the exhibit, Alessandra Moctezuma, a professor of art and gallery director at San Diego Mesa College, was especially attracted to artwork that featured hope and nature and a healthy escape, Dolgov said.
“Although sections appear different, all of it is telling a story that the juror saw emerging from the submissions,” Dolgov said. “Although many approaches, concepts and media were submitted, the juror was really exploring times of uncertainties but finding hope and peace in that.”
The show celebrates the best work from Oceanside Museum of Art’s Artist Alliance, which has more than 300 members, including Nixon, she said.
Stacy Nixon created this “Down the Rabbit Hole” piece in oil mixed media with gold leaf.
(Courtesy Stacy Nixon)
Nixon is a self-taught artist who said her style has grown over the years. Her work took a sharp turn from her former abstract or non-representational pieces when she received a fellowship to a three-week residency program at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia in 2020.
“When I was there I started working on incorporating symbols and figures and a lot of things I’m using in my art now,” she said. “That was kind of a shift for me after that residency program.
“It was a big honor to be chosen for it, especially under a fellowship. It was a lot for me to leave my family for that long because I have a few kids, but it made a huge difference. It really pushed my art a lot further and made me a lot more clear on how I wanted to use representation in my work.”
Nixon said she began showing her art regularly in 2016 and has since had her work displayed at a variety of galleries, including Santa Ysabel Art Gallery, the Aethanaeum in La Jolla, and Blue Line Arts in Sonoma.
But showing at the Artist Alliance Biennial is noteworthy, Nixon said, because it offers her art exposure to more gallery visitors during the lengthy show.
“A lot of new faces see the artwork, and that exposure of local artists is so valuable,” she said. “To have the art vetted by a large museum is a boost in being able to reach collectors.”
The 2022 Artist Alliance Biennial is on display at the Oceanside Museum of Art through May 1, 2022.
(Courtesy Oceanside Museum of Art)
Nixon said she’s in the midst of creating large commission paintings that use the human form in combination with symbols. She describes them as “colorful, exciting and really rich.”
“I love being an artist because there’s so many things we want to express and talk about and sometimes there’s no words to say what you want to communicate or connect with another person,” Nixon said. “I feel like my artwork brings people to a place they might not be able to get to on their own.”
Nixon said she plans to host an open studio in Ramona this spring.
For information about “The Gods that Feed Us” and other artwork, contact Nixon by email at stacy@stacynixonart.com. Or visit her website at stacynixonart.com and on Instagram @artstacynixon.
The Oceanside Museum of Art, at 704 Pier View Way in Oceanside, hosts 10 to 15 rotating exhibitions every year and the galleries are redesigned for each exhibition.
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