New York-based artist Lesley Dill, whose work is on display at Arthur Roger Gallery through Saturday, is largely responsible for one of the most popular trends in sculpture. Whenever you see ghostly objects made from ephemeral materials such as sheer cloth, papier-mache and dangling ribbons and threads, think of Dill.
With deadpan irony, Jim Richard meditates on one of the modern artist’s main moral challenges: how to reconcile spiritual aspirations and material desires.
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a lovely place under normal circumstances. For the next five months, it will be a fairyland.
Lesley Dill’s Radiance illustrates her fondness for mantra meditation in which words are repeated, for different words keep showing up on repeated viewings.
Leslie Dill is known for her unusual combinations of word and image, body and text, performance and poetry. She is not alone in undertaking such investigations, but her handling of these questions is unusually skillful. The practice of mixing word and image remains something which is often done clumsily at best and which tends to be, not always unreasonably, dismissed.