Lesley Dill, feminist artist, sculpture, paper ,4 books Start Price USD 45.00 Current Price USD 45.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, November 17, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location Midwest, Nebraska See more about 'Lesley Dill, feminist artist, sculpture, paper ,4 books' Description   You are bidding on 4 exhibition catalogs -        the work of Lesley Dill -   (1)             Tongues on fire: Visions and ecstasy (2001) (2)             Lesley Dill: A Ten-Year Survey (2002) (3)             George Adams Gallery B&W (1997) (4)             Arthur Roger Gallery (2004)   ( FREE SHIPPING US AND CANADA) (EUROPE $ 7.00)   Lesley Dill   Lesley's Dill's images and constructions explore the nature of the body and its clothing.  In particular, her work uses metaphoric imagery to explore the role of language in cloaking or revealing the human soul.   Born in Bronxville, New York, in 1950, Dill attended Skidmore College and Trinity College, Hartford, and earned a BA in English. Subsequently, she earned an MA in art education from Smith College and an MFA from the Maryland Institute, Baltimore. She began to work at Landfall Press in 1992, producing innovative editions which combine traditional techniques, such as lithograph, lithography, silkscreen, and etching, with collaged elements   The nature of her work is secretive.   Lesley Dill may give us a look at something big, a shape like a figure, but it is really an apparition.  Once we get close, get inside, the work slips through our fingers and we are in the dark.  What we are left with is a residue hanging in the air like perfume or smoke.   What this artist does could be defined as relief: sculpture that hangs on the wall. But she also does free-standing work, pieces on paper, and prints. The way the relief’s hang on the wall, like old clothes, suggests a figure, but no figure is present. The shape she works is not a rectangle; and this is not some formalist dialogue.  Instead, she makes a party dress of paper or a pair of copper gloves, and they become her canvas. A tired suit she fashions of wire mesh and hair becomes her armature.   This is haunting work. It has the quality of something old, something waiting in the attic to be discovered, something for us to find and cherish the meaning of. Lesley Dill wants us to understand something.   I think of words and especially poetry and especially Emily Dickinson’s as a kind of spiritual armor. As clothing cloaks or reveals, so does language, which can selectively present or obscure. —Lesley Dill   Dill is one of a group of mature female sculptors (that might include Kiki Smith, Judith Shea and Petah Coyne) who together have become a major force in American sculpture. They are making a direct grab for a spiritualized statement of strength  within vulnerability that was unthinkable 10 years ago. The American Transcendental tradition and the Hindu and Buddhist sculpture of India are strong influences on much of this work. Building on these unorthodox sources Dill and her peers are moving towards statements of identity that are typically American in their earnest self-exposure. ================================= Tongues on fire: Visions and ecstasy           ($99 hard to find) by Lesley Dill (Author)   Dill conceived of her Winston-Salem project in a typically intuitive way. I had never done this particular thing, Dill told me. What to do? I said yes (to the residency) and remembered that I had had a vision when I was 14 and growing up in Maine. I had barely allowed myself to think of it. It was not really a very safe thing, having a vision in this society. So, I thought I would see if others had had moments like this in one way or another visions, dreams, something momentary and affecting.The SECCA project was dubbed Tongues on Fire and, to collect those visions, Dill and a wide variety of volunteers collaboratively crafted a questionnaire to distribute to hundreds of people in Winston-Salem participants were not required to be residents over the course of a year. Dill gave public presentations in numerous venues, including bookstores, churches and schools, to describe the project and get responses. Questions included: Have you ever experienced feelings of peacefulness, bliss, rapture or all- knowingness?  Have you ever experienced anything that you couldn’t explain? How have any of these experiences affected, inspired or transformed your life?   Soft cover,  paperback: 11 X 8.5 inch 48 pages – 26 pages of images, color + B&W Publisher: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 1888826096 ===============================================================================   Lesley Dill: A Ten-Year Survey                        ($65 hard to find) by Samuel Dorsky museum of Art  2002 A 64-page paperback catalogue, 11 X 8.5 inch. containing  28+ B&W and 16 color plates   three essays accompanies the exhibition   The catalogue contains the following essays:   "Tell It Slant" by Arlene Raven  "Lesley Dill: Seeing, Speaking, Singing" by Janet Koplos Janet Koplos is a senior editor at Art in America magazine in New York City.   "Read Me Like a Book: Conversations with the Artist, Revisited" by Susan Krane   Impossible to categorize, Dill is at once a painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer, and performance artist. Working both small and large, she shifts with ease from the intimacy of a book to the far more public format of a billboard. But no matter what the size or medium, Dill continues to explore the elusive boundaries between mind, body, and spirit.   One of the most identifiable facets of her work is the way she examines the function of language and its relationship to the physical. In 1990 Dill was given a book of Emily Dickinson's poems and, for her, it was like a revelation. Since then, language has played a major role in her artwork. Words, at times legible and at times illegible, spill from mouths, are written across bodies, and cascade from body parts.   Her works are rich in texture and temporal associations, evoking elusive, layered meanings. Language bridges the private world of thought with the public discourse of shared experience, and Dill uses it in combination with image to evoke the spiritual content of human experience. Referring to the work, Dill stated "I think of words, and especially poetry and especially Emily Dickinson's as a kind of spiritual armor. A protecting skin of words that dresses the soul with inspirations of vulnerability, fear and hope. As clothing cloaks and reveals, so does language, which can selectively present or obscure."   As exhibition curator Nadine Wasserman explains: "Although Lesley Dill has had numerous solo exhibitions at museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, this is the first survey exhibition of work by this prolific artist. Containing 32 works and 3 performances on videos, Lesley Dill: A Ten Year Survey is a retrospective of the contemporary artist's work from the last ten years that demonstrates Dill's depth of subject matter as well as her breadth of creativity."       George Adams Gallery B&W (1997) 17 pages, 10 X 7.5 inch, B&W soft cover, paperback, exhibition catalog   Arthur Roger Gallery (2004) Small color handout of an exhibition 14 pages, 6 X 4 inch, soft cover, paperback    Payment: Paypal only. CHECK OUT OUR OTHER ART BOOKS !!!!!!!! Payment should be made within three days. Shipment will be made when payment is received. Please ask any questions before you bid.       Place a Bid!