Dear Artist You Are a Poet

Internationally renowned Artist Lesley Dill will visit Tandem Press and lecture at the Chazen Museum of Art on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 5:30 pm

Lesley Dill will make her first visit to Tandem Press, where she will make editions of fine art prints and objects.

Frequently drawing inspiration from literature and poetry, Lesley Dill works with a diverse range of materials and mediums—from cast bronze and sheet metal to horsehair and paper— to explore the symbolic and visual potential of language. She often layers fragments of poetry over the human form, as in Faith (2010), a bronze figure emblazoned with a line from Kafka's Metamorphosis, emphasizing her belief in the transformative, visceral power of language. As Dill explains, "Language is the touchstone, the pivot point of all my work."

Dill's work has been exhibited in solo shows throughout the United States, and has been included in group shows such as Slash: Paper Under the Knife at the Museum of Arts and Design (2009), Reconfiguring the Body in American Art 1820—2009 at the National Academy Museum (2009), and Threadbare: A Subversive Aesthetic at SUNY Stony Brook (2003).

Select Permanent Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

High Museum, Atlanta, GA

National Museum of women in the Arts, Washington, DC

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN

Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS