Lesley Dill
Lesley Dill (b. 1950, New York) is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer and performance artist. A book of Emily Dickinson's poetry, a 40th-birthday gift from her mother, dramatically changed the direction of her art and sparked her abiding interest in language. Her incorporation of poetry provides new layers of meaning and argue that our sense of self is formed through language and communication. Often, her works incorporate natural materials, including paper, charcoal, horsehair, tea and rice.
Dill holds a BA from Trinity College, an MA from Smith College and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. The artist has been awarded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Emily Dickinson Museum, among others. Her work can be found in countless international collections, including the Albright Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, High Museum (Atlanta), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven).
Related Works
- Lesley Dill often incorporates text into her work—particularly the poetry of Emily Dickinson. For more brilliant, text-based compositions, check out Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg and Mel Bochner.
- In the collection of our sister gallery, form & concept, Jodi Colella also explores feminine identity by stitching atop vintage tintypes of women who have been lost to history. View her work.
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Spring Showcase
featuring editioned works by Kiki Smith and Lesley Dill 10 May - 15 Jun 2024Zane Bennett Contmeporary Art presents editioned works by Kiki Smith, Lesley Dill, and Jill O' Bryan.Read more -
Black Rock Editions
A Print Showcase 25 Feb - 4 Jun 2022Black Rock Editions is a two-year-old Santa Fe print house, but its roots stretch back 50 years and across the nation. This print exhibition celebrates Black Rock’s founding and explores the storied history of its legendary forebear, Landfall Press. Historic Landfall prints by legendary artists commingle with brand new works from Black Rock’s roster of BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and women artists, highlighting the nascent print house’s intersectional vision for the future of printmaking.Read more -
Women in Print
29 Oct 2021 - 15 Jan 2022Women in Print is an annual ode to the women who have shaped the world of printmaking. Comprised of works on paper by iconic artists Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Lesley Dill, Mary Heilmann, Helen Frankenthaler and Danielle Orchard, Women in Print shines light on women’s oft-underrexamined roles in the historically male-dominant field of printmaking.Read more -
Stitched Ink
25 Jan - 23 Mar 2019Printmaking at its core is a labor-intensive and highly collaborative process. The medium’s ability to reproduce images and capture unique visual qualities has influenced numerous creative fields, from graphic design...Read more
