BE THERELesley Dill 2006Presented by George Adams Gallery October 11, 2006- November 18, 2006Reception: October 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmLesley Dill
During October and November, George Adams Gallery will exhibit new sculpture by Lesley Dill in her seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. Comprised of all new work, the exhibition features sculpture in bronze, layered metal foil, cloth and cast paper. In this exhibition, while continuing to incorporate language into her sculptures, Dill expands her lexicon of materials and imagery by introducing metal foil and variously scaled figurative elements derived from medieval and eastern sources. One of the centerpieces of the exhibition is a silver and black metal foil dress entitled Dress of War and Sorrow. Styled in the haute couture manner with a high neck, tight waist, and a flowing train, Dill creates a layered sheath of cut out skeletons taken from Tibetan texts. The result is a sharply morbid glamour, a lament on current world issues. The dress is echoed by a series of laminated metal foil figures that extend along the gallery walls. These figures, also taken from Tibetan and medieval texts, create supporting narrative context for the dress. The exhibition also presents two near life-size cast fabric figures‹one black, one white‹suspended just off the floor. In this installation entitled A Single Screw of Flesh Is All That Pins the Soul (2006), Dill plays with the nature of dualities as the two figures appear to be engaged in a dialogue or debate. Words and letters appear as extensions of the human form, protruding, piercing, enveloping the figures. Other works in the show include a unique bronze bust crowned with an oversized star, a suspended falling girl entitled Floor Lick, and a standing bronze figure with large-scale letters emerging from the back. The exhibition will also feature Dill¹s video performance I Dismantle, a collaboration done with curator Christine Redfern, in its New York debut. Lesley Dill lives in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Maine. She received her B.A. at Trinity College and went on to receive a Masters in the Philosophy of Education from Smith College. In 1980, she was awarded a M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute of Art. Dill has been a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Drawing Award in the Printmaking Category, and a National Endowment for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship. Lesley Dill's work has been widely exhibited and collected and can be found in numerous public collections around the country. In 2002-2003, Dill¹s first museum retrospective, Lesley Dill: A Ten Year Survey, organized by the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, traveled to the CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Scottsdale Center for Contemporary Art; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. More information and visuals are available on the gallery's web site: www.georgeadamsgallery.com. The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10-6, Monday by appointment. Lesley Dill at the Neuberger Museum February 11 June 10, 2007 This spring, the Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase will present a one-person show of work by Lesley Dill. Curated by DeDe Young and installed in the museum's main gallery, the exhibition will feature works made specifically for the space, including a metal foil and fabric piece measuring 20 x 60 feet, Dill¹s largest piece to date. A full color catalogue with an essay by Tom Patterson will accompany the exhibition. Interview With A Ghost/Space Walk: A Reading by Tom Sleigh Saturday, November 4, 4 p.m. In conjunction with the Lesley Dill exhibition, Tom Sleigh will read from his most recent work, Interview With A Ghost, a book of essays from Graywolf Press, and from Space Walk, a new book of poems to be published by Houghton Mifflin. Author of eight books, Tom Sleigh's most recent volume of poetry is Far Side of the Earth. His book of essays, Interview with a Ghost, appeared this spring from Graywolf Press, and his new book of poems, Space Walk, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in spring, 2007. He has won the Shelley Prize from the PSA, and grants from the Lila Wallace Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim and NEA. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College.
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