Laddie John Dill

In its juxtaposition and integration of raw and manufactured materials, Dill’s work poses a suspension between states of physical transformation. The Sand/Light/Glass pieces reveal manufactured cut glass lodged in piled sand. The cut glass fragments the uniform chromatic glow of neon tubes. Because these manufactured constituents of the work derive from the very raw materials in which the artist embeds them, they also allow us to imagine a simultaneous vision of the temporal progression of intervention between them, a dynamic that is underscored by the various states of matter they evoke.

Dill received two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowships, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a California Arts Council Art in Public Buildings Program Grant. Dill’s work has been exhibited widely at galleries and institutions, including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Louisiana Museum, Denmark. He was included in The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time, 2012 in Berlin. His exhibition at the Museo Archeologico di Napoli opens in May 2017. Dill lectures at universities and art institutions widely. He lives and works in Venice, California.