Laddie John Dill was born in Long Beach, California, in 1943. He graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute in 1968 with a BFA. After graduating, Dill became a printing apprentice and worked closely with established artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns.
A Los Angeles artist, Dill had his first solo exhibition in New York City with Sonnabend Gallery in 1971. He was one of the first Los Angeles artists to exhibit Light and Space work in New York. He exhibited the “Light Sentences” and “Light Plains” sculptures in institutions across the United States and globally, and has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in these pieces in the last decade as well, including an acquisition of a “Light Plains” sculpture by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is currently on view in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
Dill has been crafting light and earthly materials like concrete, glass, sand, and metal into luminous sculptures, wall pieces, and installations since the 1970s. Referring to his choice of materials, Dill explains: “I was influenced by (Robert) Rauschenberg, Keith Sonnier, Robert Smithson, Dennis Oppenheim and Robert Irwin, who were working with earth materials, light and space as an alternative to easel painting.” When Dill does use canvas, he paints with pigments derived from cement and natural oxides.
Dill’s works are in the permanent collections of national and international institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; the Museum of Contemporary Art, California; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; the High Museum, Atlanta; and elsewhere. He currently lives and works in Venice, California, where he maintains a studio.
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Laddie John Dill, Robert Rauschenberg protege signed mixed media painting Unique
By Laddie John Dill
Located in New York, NY
Laddie John Dill Untitled Mixed Media painting, 2011 Cement, polymer, wood, mixed media on board 12 × 18 × 1 1/2 inches Signed and dated on the back Unique work This exquisite unique...
Wood, Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
$7,400
Abstract Expressionist Glass, Cement, and Polymer Painting by Laddie Dill
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laddie John Dill, American (1943 - ) Title: untitled Year: 1984 Medium: Glass, Cement and Polymer on panel Size: 30 x 50 x 2.5 in. (76.2 x 127 x 6.35 cm)
Cement
Ensign No. 1
Located in Columbia, MO
A native of Upstate New York, Matt Ballou was educated at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2001) and Indiana University ( MFA 2005) before coming to The University of ...
Mixed Media, Plastic, Permanent Marker
Ensign No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
A native of Upstate New York, Matt Ballou was educated at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2001) and Indiana University ( MFA 2005) before coming to The University of ...
Plastic, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
$2,850
H 11.7 in W 8.27 in D 0.04 in
Foundational Study No. 25 (B) Gestural Form & Crimson Pigment
By Rebecca Wing Sze Lam
Located in STRETTON, AU
Foundational Studies 25(B) The Composition A refined entry point into the studio’s practice, Foundational Studies 25(B) is a deliberate exploration of form and verse. Executed on ha...
Paint, Crayon, Oil Pastel, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival ...
$1,760Sale Price|20% Off
H 48 in W 48 in D 2 in
The Whole Thing bright abstract painting colorful pattern
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dimitri incorporates and captures free form expression using urban iconography, text, collage and traditions methods.
Oil, Panel
$9,500
H 48 in W 72 in
Large Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Edward Avedisian Color Field Painting
By Edward Avedisian
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian (American, 1936-2007) Abstract Large Painting Acrylic on panel heavily textured with a 3D effect. Dimensions: 48"h x 75"w Circa late 1970s, early 1980s Provenance: ...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$9,500
H 48 in W 72 in
Large Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Edward Avedisian Color Field Painting
By Edward Avedisian
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian (American, 1936-2007) Abstract Large Painting Acrylic on panel heavily textured with a 3D effect. Dimensions: 48"h x 75"w Circa late 1970s, early 1980s Provenance: ...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$9,500
H 48 in W 72 in
Large Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Edward Avedisian Color Field Painting
By Edward Avedisian
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian (American, 1936-2007) Abstract Large Painting Acrylic on panel heavily textured with a 3D effect. Dimensions: 48"h x 75"w Circa late 1970s, early 1980s Provenance: ...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Apali
By Donald Martiny
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Acrylic and polymer on aluminum panel
Acrylic Polymer
Entrances and Exits
By Harriet Holden Nash
Located in Buffalo, NY
Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in Park Slope for over 35 years. She attended the Brooklyn Museum School at age 14 where she establis...
Acrylic, Pen, Permanent Marker, Watercolor
Tsiutsiu
By Donald Martiny
Located in Boca Raton, FL
To create the highly palpable textures, Martiny mixes polymers and pigments until he reaches a desirable viscosity and applies the mixture to sheets of aluminum. He once described hi...
Acrylic Polymer
The Navigator (Small)
By Michael David
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...
Wood, Panel, Wax, Oil
$2,700
H 59.06 in W 78.75 in D 1.19 in
Forgotten melody 150x200cm, Extra Large Abstract Violet Painting Interior Design
By Anastasia Vasilyeva
Located in Zofingen, AG
This extra-large artwork is made with acrylic on canvas. UV protection varnish. Inspired by the Very Peri color and abstract elements with fantasy lettering. The artwork and the com...
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
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H 38.5 in W 40 in
1970s California Artist Large Mixed Media Abstract Painting
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Surfside, FL
Blue carpenters chalk and concrete on paper board. there is a label with artists name, date and materials verso. . Laddie John Dill was born in Long Beach, CA in 1943. He graduated ...
Mixed Media