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Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

American, b. 1950
Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art. Exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche, Dill invests new meaning in the human form. Fluid metaphors, appropriated from the poetry and writings of Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke, connect the diverse media that Dill employs. Paper, wire, horsehair, photography, foil, bronze, and music comprise elements through which the artist conveys the complexities of communication. Dill challenges the viewer to confront our linguistic relationships as well as perceptions of language itself. Born and raised in Maine, Dill received her Master of Arts from Smith College in 1974, and her Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1980. She soon emerged as a sculptor and multi-media artist. Her interest in language and allusions to strong feminine identity reflect her friendship with the late artist, Nancy Spero (1926 – 2009), who used text and depictions of the female form, often appropriated as classical goddesses, in her scroll paintings. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in addition to the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Anonymous Was A Woman, among others. Dill conceived and directed an opera, Divide Light, based on the poems of Emily Dickinson that premiered in at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA in 2008. In April, 2018, the New Camerata Opera Company will perform Divide Light in New York City. Dill’s artworks are in the collections of over fifty museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
(Biography provided by Nohra Haime Gallery)
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Artist: Lesley Dill
Leave Me Ecstasy
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
Lesley Dill is an American contemporary artist. Her work, using a wide variety of media including sculpture, print, performance art, music, and others, explores the power of language...
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1990s Modern Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Lithograph

WHITE HINGED POEM DRESS (#3)
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
This beautifully delicate mixed media print contains language from an Emily Dickinson poem.
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1990s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Mixed Media

I See Visions
By Lesley Dill
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Lithograph on muslin and silk organza, hand-sewing. Printer's Proof 1/2
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2010s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Textile, Lithograph

SMALL POEM DRESS
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
LESLEY DILL SMALL POEM DRESS, 1993 lithograph on Hindi newsprint 10 x 3 x 2 in. 25.4 x 7.6 x 5.1 cm. edition of 10 image may be slightly different. Please request exact image if int...
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1990s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Newsprint, Lithograph

WHITE HINGED POEM DRESS (#3)
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
LESLEY DILL WHITE HINGED POEM DRESS (#3), 1993 mixed media paper construction Framed: 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in Edition of 20 signed, dated and numbered 12...
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1990s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Woman with Hindi Healing Dress
By Lesley Dill
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Woman with Hindi Healing Dress is a 2005 mixed-media lithograph by Lesley Dill that reflects her love for the written language. Woman with Hindi Healing Dress is from an edition of 1...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Lithograph

Listen
By Lesley Dill
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Listen measures 20 x 60 framed and is excellent condition. The elegant lithograph includes blue horse hair and tea stained paper, the unique use of mixed media is quintessential Dill...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

JUBILATION
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
2 color lithograph on gold abaca. Image of a skeleton surrounded by leaves and letters spelling JUBILATION
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2010s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Gold

"Listen (Dust is the Only Secret), " Mixed Media signed by Lesley Dill
By Lesley Dill
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Listen (Dust is the Only Secret)" is an original lithograph with nylon string by Lesley Dill. The artist signed the piece lower left. It depicts the silhouette of a man constructed ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Nylon, Mixed Media, Lithograph

CURTAIN CALL
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Located in New York, NY
This unique expressive work of art features an emotional figure centered in the foreground surrounded by gestured brushstrokes.
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1990s Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Monotype

WING
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
This work of art is a offset lithography print with letterpress printing and silkscreen with hand sewn threads. The language on the print reads "In it unsayable with a Phantom Lightn...
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2010s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Thread, Lithograph

POEM DRESS OF CIRCULATION
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
The Language of this work of art reads: "The Heart has narrow banks/ it measures like the Sea/ In mighty - unremitt- ing Bass/ And Blue Monotony/ Till Hurrican bisect/ And as itself ...
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1990s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Thread, Acrylic, Lithograph

LEST THE BLAZE TORCH MY HAND
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
This work of art is a screen print, relief, and collage with colored silver and gold leaf and thread on Sekishu Thick, Koso, French Black Hemptone, printed on Rives BFK. The language...
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2010s Contemporary Lesley Dill Prints and Multiples

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Gold Leaf

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