Laddie John Dill

Laddie John Dill (born Long Beach, CA, 1943) is an American artist. Dill calls his work "light sentences".[1] Dill received a BFA degree from Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, in 1968.[2]

Education

Dill was educated at the Chouinard Art Institute in California, where he graduated with a BFA degree[3] with honors in 1968.[4] After he graduated, he worked as a printing apprentice to Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenberg.[3]

Work

Dill is associated with the California "Light and Space Movement".[5] His work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries, including those in New York, Paris, Seoul and other locations nationally and internationally.[4] His first solo exhibition took place in 1971 at the Sonnabend Gallery.[3] Dill is known for his glass, sand and light slab paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.[6] He also produced, starting in the 1970s, works with luminescent tubes charged with neon, mercury and argon gasses.[3] He has described these works as "light sentences," referring to language, and as "light plains".[7][5]

Awards and honors

Dill has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim fellowship,[4] and a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.[8]

Collections

Dill's work is held in the permanent collections of the Laguna Art Museum,[4] the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,[9] MOCA Los Angeles,[10] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[11] among others.

References
  1. "Laddie John Dill at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles". 4 April 2016.
  2. "Fact Sheet Laddie John Dill". 8 February 2010.
  3. "Laddie John Dill; Chouinard '68". Chouinard Art Institute. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  4. "Laddie John Dill". Laguna Art Museum. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  5. Reynolds, Jacqueline (15 January 2022). "Experiencing art through the lens of light". Aspen Daily News. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  6. Linville, Kasha (April 1971). "Laddie John Dill: Sonnabend Gallery". Artforum. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  7. Frank, Peter (4 April 2016). "Laddie John Dill at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles" (PDF). ARTnews. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  8. "Laddie John Dill". Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  9. "Laddie John Dill". Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  10. "Laddie John Dill". Museum of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  11. "Laddie John Dill". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
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