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Kate Kelton: Tasha Dixon

$800

Kate Kelton
Tasha Dixon
Acrylic, ink, graphite on wood
12 x 14″

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Tasha Dixon is a former Miss Arizona, who disclosed how pageant owner Donald Trump “just came waltzing in” to her dressing room to survey the naked and semi-naked contestants beforehand, some as young as 15. She recounted this incident as part of a performance in The Pussy Grabber Plays, the first theater piece in a in a major New York venue that deals directly with Trump’s relationship to the #MeToo movement.

Headdresses and crowns deify Kate Kelton’s subjects. She uplifts the Unsung Sheroes & Heroes, Patriarchy Smashers, Warrior Survivors, Silence Breakers, Philosophers, Truth-Tellers, Whistle Blowers and Thought Giants. She paints portraits cloaked in the garb of statues Ladislav Šaloun sculpted onto the train station that her great-grandfather, Josef Fanta, designed for Prague in 1901 – 1909.
Apotheosis through a reclaimed, reapplied Art Nouveau.