Lush and indulgent, via Things Magazine, we are introduced to the portfolio and gallery showings of artist Andy Dixon, whose paintings are not only homages to classical conceits on the subject of impermanence but are also quite regularly commissions of the houses and tastes of patrons, teasing out the inflection point between wealth and art, as a store of the former and as a ostentatious and conspicuous display of the former.
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