Art In Public Places Gallery
Stepping Stones
South Mandarin Regional Branch Library
12125 San Jose Boulevard
Stepping Stones (2005)
Nofa Dixon (Jacksonville, Fla.)
Hand-painted, glazed, porcelain tile
For the South Mandarin Regional Library, the artist’s work is displayed on the floor—floor tiles that is. Stepping Stones is a series of trompe l’oeil or “fool the eye” paintings depicting irregular groupings of stones. The artist is known for painterly surfaces on three dimensional clay forms. Dixon also uses two-dimensional formats with “the intent of pushing the clay medium to new levels of form and embellishment.”