Picture in Focus: Exodus: Journeys of Liberation by Carl Dixon

April 29, 2018

Picture in Focus: Exodus: Journeys of Liberation by Carl Dixon

Mississippi Artist Carl Dixon created this week's new art offering from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection especially for the 2018 Lenten art exhibition, Exodus: Journeys of Liberation, at the gallery of St. Philip Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio. It brings together the themes we have been considering this month. At the center of his carved wood panel painting, Christ exits the tomb in the ultimate journey of liberation, when he overcame death to bring us eternal life. On the left side of the picture, Moses leads the Children of Israel through the Red Sea, which has miraculously parted to allow their escape from Egypt. In a parallel image, Harriet Tubman, nicknamed “Moses” for her role in leading African-Americans out of slavery on the Underground Railroad, keeps watch as a group of freedom-seekers reaches the banks of the Ohio River separating the South from the North. In the background, Barak Obama, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. pay homage to their forerunner, Tubman, and this milestone moment on the African-American Road to Freedom. This new historical painting can be found in the Carl Dixon profile page in the Sacred Artists section. (John Kohan)