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Wilderness : light sizzles around me

Title
Wilderness : light sizzles around me / Lesley Dill ; [edited by Figge Art Museum].
Author
Dill, Lesley, 1950-
Publication
  • Davenport, Iowa : Figge Art Museum, [2022]
  • ©2022

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  • Figge Art Museum, host institution.
  • Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.
  • Bates College (Lewiston, Me.). Museum of Art, host institution.
  • Shaker Village, Inc., host institution.
  • Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, host institution.
  • Zuckerman Museum of Art, host institution.
Description
111 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
For Lesley Dill, Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me, Lesley Dill (American, born 1950) created a new body of work drawing on language, the written word, and the investigation of divinity and devilry during the wilderness of Early America. Her pieces take the forms of long thin figures that wear the strength of the words of the people they represent. Though differing in specific experience, each of these personas have had a powerful impact through their words, and personally connect with the artist. Dill believes that there is something untamable, fierce, and persistent in each of their beliefs, which ultimately unites them. She is drawn to this restrictive time period of limited access to a diversity of written word and the bravery of these figures' response. Dill presents a new way of reading and absorbing the words of these idiosyncratic figures. The painted and sewn letters in her work take on a formal quality of their own, not legible in the same way as we are accustomed, leaving a considerable impact on the viewer. Dill found inspiration in the poetry, prose, and declarations of early New England figures and also represents religious crusaders, social activists, and Native American leaders such as by the Sauk warrior Black Hawk, the self-taught artist and Alabama native, Sister Gertrude Morgan, and Mother Ann Lee, the leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or Shakers. The artist incorporates their words into two and three-dimensional wall hangings and sculptures. -- Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts website.
Alternative Title
Light sizzles around me
Subject
  • Dill, Lesley, 1950- > Exhibitions
  • Dill, Lesley, 1950-
  • 2000-2099
  • Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Sculpture, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Clothing and dress in art > Exhibitions
  • Letters in art > Exhibitions
  • Words in art > Exhibitions
  • Art > 21e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpture américaine > 21e siècle > Expositions
  • Sculpture, American
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, May 29-August 22, 2021; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, October 9, 2021-January 2, 2022; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, January 21-March 19, 2022; Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire, May 28-September 11, 2022; Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, October 22, 2022-January 29, 2023; Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia, February 25-May 6, 2023.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110).
ISBN
  • 9783858818812
  • 385881881X
LCCN
99992454348
OCLC
  • on1263259602
  • 1263259602
  • SCSB-14393335
Owning Institutions
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