Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
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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2010s Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Wood, Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media
1980s Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Cement
2010s Abstract Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Polymer, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Glass, Plastic, Wood, Paper, Oil, Found Objects, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Clay, Slip, Ink, Panel, Archival Paper, Polymer
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Acrylic, Panel, Handmade Paper
2010s Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper
2010s Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Gesso, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Foil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Encaustic, Wood Panel, Mixed Media
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Wood Panel, Laid Paper, Lithograph
2010s Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Acrylic Polymer, Varnish, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Acrylic, Panel, Handmade Paper
2010s Abstract Expressionist Laddie John Dill Mixed Media
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper