Caicoya

A distant light Over the last two years I have been developing what today makes up ‘Distant light’. Pieces in which space, light, solitude and silence continue to be the common nexus of my work. My personal interest in this relationship pushes me to investigate those empty, or not so empty, spaces in which I have been working for more than a decade; luminous architectures that become passable with the gaze and that can refer us to existential concerns. Spaces without identity, built only with light and shadows. Those ‘non-places’ that today have become common places in today’s society. I like to take this concept a little further: I have incorporated new chromatics to the different scenarios, thus creating new visual atmospheres. I could not mi another fundamental theme in my work, my dreamlike landscapes: undefined places in which we can all feel identified. These other ‘non-places’, the fruit of my reverie, are, in a way, a return to my origins. I always seek new atmospheres through light and space. They are the basis of my work and what moves me to continue creating. Monica Dixon,

Monica Dixon Gutiérrez de Terán, Marlton (New Jersey, USA, 1971) Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, by Rutgers University (NJ USA) Solo (selection) 2024  Luz distante, Caicoya Art Gallery (Oviedo)  The limits of emptyness, Galerie Artima (Paris)  The Quietness of space, Galerie Artima (Paris), 2022  To live in the strange, Cultural Complex Exhibition Hall ‚As Quintas‘ (A Caridad, Asturias)  Backyards, Galerie Artima (Paris), 2020,2019,2018,2017,2016,2015  Detained spaces, Caicoya Art Gallery (Oviedo)  At the threshold / Towards light, Borron Art Center (Oviedo)  Lugares comunes, Angel Almeida Art Gallery (Zamora)  Scenes from nowhere, MH Art Gallery (Bilbao)  Somewhere… Nowhere, Caicoya Art Gallery (Oviedo)  Enyorances i records, Jordi Barnadas Art Gallery (Barcelona)  Landscapes, Lönebostället Art Gallery (Simrishamn, Sweden)  Ausencia y presencia, Murillo Art Gallery (Oviedo)  Homeland, Espacio 36 Art Gallery (Zamora)  A Universal Truth, Barnadas Huang Art Gallery (Singapore)2014  Nowhere land, Jordi Barnadas Art Gallery (Barcelona)2013  Scapes, Patricia Acal Art Gallery (Madrid) 2012  Open/Closed Spaces, Espacio 36 Art Gallery (Zamora) Public collections  Rutgers University Art Collection, Camden, NJ (USA)  Oviedo City Hall Art Collection (Spain)  Caja Rural Art Collection (Savings Bank), Asturias (Spain)  Jesus Barcenas Electric Company Art Collection, Ciudad Real, (Spain)  Padron City Hall Art Collection (La Coruña, Spain)  Junta de Comunidades de Castilla- La Mancha Art Collection (Spain)  Jaleo Restaurant Art Collection, Cosmopolitan Resort (Las Vegas, USA)  Pola de Siero City Hall Art Collection (Asturias, Spain)  S.C. „La Oturense“Art Collection (Asturias)  Valdepenas Fine Arts Museum Collection (Ciudad Real, Spain)

The Caicoya Gallery has its origins in the NOGAL Gallery, inaugurated in 1969 by Elías Caicoya Masaveu. Caicoya Masaveu, dedicated fundamentally to the most classic art and part of contemporary art. contemporary art. In 1983 Guillermina Caicoya took over the management of the gallery and began to turn it around and include new works and began to give it a twist and to include contemporary artists in the programming. In 2008 she carried out an integral reform of the space of more than 300 m2 that it occupied on Asturias Street. Starting to exhibit only contemporary artists and beginning that same year attending international fairs: Since 2008, we have been attending contemporary art fairs outside the region and Spain.