Press & Media

“Sculptors on Sculpture: Part One,” Blouin Art Info

March 5, 2015

I don’t see how any artist can work alone. I am so happy working with people; I like working with a team, whether they’re assistants or interns. We are making something together, and I am proud of them, because they contribute so much. However, I am definitely the captain of the ship, the singer of the song, the leader of the pack, and it is my job to have a steady vision and open mind. I keep a hawk’s eye out on the work, because, though explorative, it has to be exactly right.

“Installation art and towering text combine in the Appleton’s new exhibit ‘Faith & the Devil,'” Ocala

January 23, 2015

In the eons since written language was developed, its art typically was words: poetry, essays, plays and so forth.

” Lesley Dill & Deborah Kass,” New Orleans Art Review

November 1, 2014

AN APPRECIATION OF the semantic conundrums posed by the titles of Lesley Dill’s Beautiful Dirt: Ballgowns of Lightness & Dark and Deborah Kass’ feel good paintings for feel bad times can spice up one’s experience of the artists’ works collectively and individually.

“Review: Four shows at Arthur Roger Gallery,” Gambit

October 20, 2014

Words are everywhere. They seemed to be taking over the art world not so long ago, even replacing images in paintings as theory-crazed critics predicted the “end of art.”

“Art For Arts’ Sake fall art festival paints the town Oct. 4 in New Orleans,” The Times-Picayune

September 30, 2014

Art for Arts’ Sake 2014- A one-night festival of gallery openings to kick off the art season.

“A Space for Imagination,” U.S. Airways Magazine

September 12, 2014

The Halsey Institute offers a glimpse inside the artistic process.

“Everything’s All Right,” The Brooklyn Rail

June 5, 2014

When I was 14 years old growing up in Maine I experienced a startling awareness of understanding.

“Words find shape, color in summer exhibitions,” Westford – Wicked Local

June 5, 2014

The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words turns tangible in the summer exhibitions at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, where poetry pops off the page and into three dimensions.

“An artistic odd couple at the deCordova,” The Herald News

May 25, 2014

Like artists who work with paint or marble, Lesley Dill and Ian Hamilton Finlay use words, signs and poetry to fashion intriguing art that explores the nature and meaning of language itself. Sharing little but a willingness to provoke, they are exhibiting challenging bodies of work fashioned from wildly varied material at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.

“Lecture and Exhibition by New York Artist Lesley Dill,” LSU College of Art + Design

October 9, 2013

Acclaimed New York artist Lesley Dill will present a lecture entitled “We Are Animals of Language” as part of the LSU College of Art + Design Paula G. Manship Endowed Lecture Series. Lesley Dill is one of a series of visiting artists participating in LSU School of Art’s 2013–14: Malleable Language exhibition season, whose theme is the visual and critical exploration of the artistic tradition of intermingling text and image. Her works in sculpture, photography, and performance use a variety of media and techniques to explore themes of language, the body, and transformational experience. Dill has called herself a “matchmaker of words and images,” and she often pulls from the poems of Emily Dickinson and other poets and writers to create sculptural costumes, mannequins, and floor-to-ceiling backdrops covered in interweaving black text and images.