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Guy Dill was born in 1946. He received his education at Chouinard Institute of Art, Los Angeles, California (BFA-Honors) in 1970. Guy Dill presently works in Venice, California, and Brussels, Belgium.
Dill, whose work is collected and exhibited around the world, is one of the acknowledged contemporary masters of large-scale, abstract sculptural work. His bronzes, while not figurative, often suggest the lines, curves, and lithe swoop of bodies and of movement itself.
His 14-foot-high fabricated bronze sculpture for Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, entitled ‘Boon’, is a particularly notable example of his signature style. Its whorls and curves make the piece seem to be dancing, its shape suggestive, within its swirls, of joy.
“Guy Dill is one of our contemporary sculptors
who have consistently over the past twenty years been able to achieve what
might be called meaningful monumentality- that is, a significant scale to
his work that isn’t wasted, that holds up against the test of large, outdoor
space and proclaims itself as needing to be made in monumental proportions.”
“Guy Dill and Monumentality”
Steven Nash, Director, Nasher Sculpture Center,
Dallas
Dill has had over fifty one-man exhibitions, in cities including: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and Brussels.
Works
in Museum permanent collections include:
Albright-Knox Art Museum,
Buffalo, New York
Long Beach Museum of Art, California
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art,
New York City
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
The Norton Simon
Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Roy R.
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Santa
Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
