Lesley Dill Figurative Sculptures
American, b. 1950
Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art. Exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche, Dill invests new meaning in the human form. Fluid metaphors, appropriated from the poetry and writings of Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke, connect the diverse media that Dill employs. Paper, wire, horsehair, photography, foil, bronze, and music comprise elements through which the artist conveys the complexities of communication. Dill challenges the viewer to confront our linguistic relationships as well as perceptions of language itself.
Born and raised in Maine, Dill received her Master of Arts from Smith College in 1974, and her Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1980. She soon emerged as a sculptor and multi-media artist. Her interest in language and allusions to strong feminine identity reflect her friendship with the late artist, Nancy Spero (1926 – 2009), who used text and depictions of the female form, often appropriated as classical goddesses, in her scroll paintings.
She has received a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in addition to the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Anonymous Was A Woman, among others. Dill conceived and directed an opera, Divide Light, based on the poems of Emily Dickinson that premiered in at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA in 2008. In April, 2018, the New Camerata Opera Company will perform Divide Light in New York City.
Dill’s artworks are in the collections of over fifty museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.to
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Artist: Lesley Dill
COPPER BIRD LITTLE "IN MEE THE FLAME"
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
copper, wire and organza on metal armature
"In Mee the Flame" - John Donne
Category
2010s Contemporary Lesley Dill Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper, Wire
ONLY
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
LESLEY DILL
ONLY, 2004
bronze, paint, ink, wire, thread
58 x 19 x 14 in. 147.3 x 48.3 x 35.6 cm.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Lesley Dill Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Wire
GOWN OF BLUEPRINT
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
hand-painted metal with oil paint on metal armature
text by Tom Sleigh: BLUEPRINT - 2007
I had a blueprint
of history
in my head —
it was a history of the martyrs
of love, the fool...
Category
2010s Contemporary Lesley Dill Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
WHITE HINGED POEM DRESS,
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
LESLEY DILL
WHITE HINGED POEM DRESS, 1994
patinated bronze
55 x 37 x 30 in. 139.7 x 94 x 76.2 cm.
Edition of 4
Category
1990s Contemporary Lesley Dill Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
BIG HEART GOWN
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
The language on this extravagant sculpture are two poems that read; "The heart asks pleasure first and then excuse from pain," Emily Dickinson & "Becoming ever more quiet constantly branching out into ever thinning air...
Category
2010s Contemporary Lesley Dill Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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