Lesley Dill

Lesley Dill

- 2020

Lesley Dill is an American artist whose work probes the power that language has on individuals and society. Employing sculpture, performance, drawing, and photography along with quotes by Emily Dickinson and Franz Kafka, Dill orchestrates complex installation-based shows. “Language is a manifestation of the human need to reach out,” she explained. “As much as my work is about language, it’s also about what the image does to you, and how the two together make a whole.” Born in 1950 in Bronxville, NY, Dill studied English at Trinity College, before receiving a Masters in Teaching from Smith College, and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1980. Using language as a mantra, the artist often pairs unorthodox materials such as horse hair with bronze figures and words, to create a visceral experience of language. Dill lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Today, her works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Denver Art Museum, the Yale University Art Museum in New Haven, and the High Museum in Atlanta, among others.

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