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Lesley Dill Breathing Leaves (detail), 2004

Lesley Dill
Breathing Leaves (detail), 2004
Ink, thread and glue on tea stained fabric
72 x 98 inches
LDs 200

Lesley Dill Innocent (Chinese), 2002

Lesley Dill
Innocent (Chinese), 2002
Chiri paper, newspaper, thread and matte medium
53 1/4 x 41 1/4 x 3 inches

Lesley Dill Dress of Opening and Close of Being, 2008

Lesley Dill
Dress of Opening and Close of Being, 2008
Steel, metal foil, organza, thread and wire
80 x 106 x 130 inches

Lesley Dill Blossom, 2007

Lesley Dill
Blossom, 2007
Rubber, organza, netting, wire and thread
75 1/2 x 12 inches

Lesley Dill Lesley Dill, 2004

Lesley Dill
Lesley Dill, 2004
Chiri paper, glue, India ink and thread
21 x 15 x 3 inches

Lesley Dill Yellow Poem Suit (Extaxie), 2013

Lesley Dill
Yellow Poem Suit (Extaxie), 2013
India ink and thread on fabric
56 1/2 x 23 inches
LDp 302

Lesley Dill I Envy Light, 2010

Lesley Dill
I Envy Light, 2010
Organza, metal foil and wire
34 x 21 x 3 inches
LDs 280

Lesley Dill Breathing Leaves, 2004

Lesley Dill
Breathing Leaves, 2004
Ink, thread and glue on tea stained fabric
72 x 98 inches
LDs 200

Lesley Dill I Suddenly Touch (Detail), 2002

Lesley Dill
I Suddenly Touch (Detail), 2002
Chinese newspaper, chiri paper, fabric, ribbon, glue, threads and ink
5 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 2 inches
LDs 151

Lesley Dill Punch, 1999

Lesley Dill
Punch, 1999
Bronze, tea stained muslin, thread and oil paint
10 1/4 x 81 1/4 x 3 inches
LDs 104

Lesley Dill Dreamer, 1998

Lesley Dill
Dreamer, 1998
Bronze, steel wire and horsehair
100 x 13 x 2 1/2 inches
LDs 102

Lesley Dill Words Made Flesh, 2002

Lesley Dill
Words Made Flesh, 2002
Chiri paper, glue, threads, pins and tea

Press Release

During the months of September and October the George Adams Gallery will exhibit a survey of works by Lesley Dill celebrating her 20-year association with the gallery The exhibition features 15 works in a variety of media, including bronze, paper, copper works,  and fabric.

 

Notable in the exhibition is the earliest work, the “Poetic Body” suite of four lithographs, her first editioned work, and a never before exhibited sculpture “Speaking Head,” 1996, an example of her early work in hand-cut copper, this one over 20 feet long. Other works include a series of dimensional paper ‘hands’ from 2002 and 2004, her bronze-cast “Dreamer” from 1998, and the large-scale embroidered fabric “Breathing Leaves” also from 2004.

 

Lesley Dill has been the subject of five survey and retrospective exhibitions, the most recent, “ I Heard A Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill,” traveled extensively throughout the US during 2009 and 2010. Her most recent traveling exhibition, “Poetic Visions,” concluded its tour this past spring. Two new museum exhibitions are planned for 2014, one at the University of Arkansas focusing on her performance works and showcasing for the first time her work with costumes, the other at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden will focus on her indoor and outdoor works in bronze.

 

Lesley Dill, who lives and works in New York City, was the recipient of a 2013 lifetime achievement award from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and has been recognized with grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  Her work is represented in the collections of such museums as the Albright-Knox, Buffalo, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Neuberger Museum, SUNY, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.