Untitled, 2014 by Laddie John Dill
Dimensions: 24" x 12" x 1 1/2"
Medium: tempered glass, red-iron oxide, sulfur, and welded & polished 6061 aircraft grade aluminum
Edition: One-of-a-kind
Signed by the artist.
This piece is unframed
Description of piece: Using natural pigments he incorporates, in his work, a wide range of colors from brick reds derived, from iron oxide, coal blacks from black sulphur, yellows and naturally mined cobalt blues. Combinations of these natural pigments create a variety of brilliant but still "organic" colors.
Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles native, was born in Long Beach and attended Santa Monica High School. He graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in 1968. At age 28, Dill had his first one-man exhibit at the Illena Sonnabend Gallery in New York. Dill's list of exhibitions include galleries and museums from such venues as Seoul, Paris, Nogoya, Japan and Helsinki, Finland to New York, Kansas City, Seattle, and throughout Northern and Southern California.
Laddie is the recipient of two National Endowment grants; one for sculpture and one for painting, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting. He has also taught extensively at UCLA, UC Irvine, Art Center in Pasadena and lectured in numerous universities and art institutions across the United States.
"Laddie John Dill has been an important fixture of the Los Angeles art scene for over three decades. From his first exhibitions at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York in the early 1970’s, Dill brought increasing recognition to a new style and sensibility coming out of Los Angeles. Dill’s work is inherently sculptural, and has consistently focused on the play of light over and upon elemental surfaces – sand, minerals, metal, glass, Variations of texture often play an equally important compositional role with color and form in a piece. The extensive resume reflects an extremely successful career: over 100 solo shows, in the collections of over 25 important museums, and in public and private collections too numerous to count." Venice Magazine 2004