Laddie John Dill (born Long Beach, CA, 1943) is an American artist. Dill calls his work "light sentences".[1] Dill received a BFA degree from Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, in 1968.[2] He is the older brother of sculptor Guy Dill.[3]
Education
editDill was educated at the Chouinard Art Institute in California, where he graduated with a BFA degree[4] with honors in 1968.[5] After he graduated, he worked as a printing apprentice to Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenberg.[4]
Work
editDill is associated with the California "Light and Space Movement".[6] His work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries, including those in New York, Paris, Seoul and other locations nationally and internationally.[5] His first solo exhibition took place in 1971 at the Sonnabend Gallery.[4] Dill is known for his glass, sand and light slab paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.[7] He also produced, starting in the 1970s, works with luminescent tubes charged with neon, mercury and argon gasses.[4] He has described these works as "light sentences," referring to language, and as "light plains".[8][6]
Awards and honors
editDill has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim fellowship,[5] and a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.[9]
Collections
editDill's work is held in the permanent collections of the Laguna Art Museum,[5] the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,[10] MOCA Los Angeles,[11] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[12] among others.
References
edit- ^ "Laddie John Dill at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles". 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Fact Sheet Laddie John Dill". 8 February 2010.
- ^ "Oral history interview with Guy Dill, August 29, 2000". www.aaa.si.edu. Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
- ^ a b c d "Laddie John Dill; Chouinard '68". Chouinard Art Institute. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Laddie John Dill". Laguna Art Museum. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ a b Reynolds, Jacqueline (15 January 2022). "Experiencing art through the lens of light". Aspen Daily News. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ Linville, Kasha (April 1971). "Laddie John Dill: Sonnabend Gallery". Artforum. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ Frank, Peter (4 April 2016). "Laddie John Dill at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles" (PDF). ARTnews. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ "Laddie John Dill". Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ "Laddie John Dill". Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "Laddie John Dill". Museum of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
- ^ "Laddie John Dill". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 29 May 2022.