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Lesley Dill, an artist born in 1950, Bronxville, New York, USA. She received a B.A. in English in 1972 from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut, USA), a Masters from Smith College (North Hampton, Massachusetts, USA), and a Masters of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute of Art (Baltimore, USA). Her style is mostly contemporary exploring the relationship of words, body, emotion, and society. Her work crosses traditional artistic lines and includes printmaking, photographs, lithographs, drawing, sculptures, performing arts, and lyrics. She is widely exhibited throughout the United States. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. ... Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest womens college in the United States. ...
LesleyDill is an artist who does both, but one who manages to do so in a way that is familiar and fresh, showing words to be potent -- and elusive -- things.
Her exhibition of recent work at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, "LesleyDill: A Ten Year Survey," addresses words as containers of both meaning and meaninglessness, as tools of communication and as mute scribblings on a page.
In a sense, Dill is their antithesis, an artist who thinks long and hard about her titles and who litters her work with written -- or, as in the case of Dill and Thomas Edward Morgan's sound installation, "I Heard a Voice," whispered -- clues about its meaning.
LesleyDill is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer, and performance artist who explores the role of language in the creation of our identities.
LesleyDill: A Ten Year Survey is comprised of signature pieces created since 1993, which has been Dill's most prolific phase since she first encountered the poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Dill's long-skirted Poem Dresses, for which she is best known and which she has executed in many different media, including bronze, echo in shape the kind of dresses Dickinson was said to wear.
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