Laddie John Dill - Contained Radiance/Paris
From 12/03/2011 to 07/05/2011
Dominique Fiat gallery is pleased to announce from March 12 to May 7 Contained Radiance/Paris, a solo show with the Californian artist Laddie John Dill who will present some of his works from the 70s connected to the movement «Light and Space».The «Light Sentences» constitute real experiments in alchemy wielding the absence and presence of mercury, uranium and helium.The artist controls the intensity of the light so that the piece is defined by both the source of the light (the neon) and its radiation. Each piece is therefore contained in its own and immediate space. Gratuated from Chouinard Art School, Laddie John Dill (1943) studied painting with Emerson Woelffer and met Robert Irwin. His career took off soon after when he developed sculptural works with sand, glass, and neon. Asked to exhibit at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York when just 27 years old, Dill with an installation where the play of light across the sand granules and faces of glass was controlled and manipulated by altering the shapes and heights of the “dunes” with brooms. The works were ever-changing.Dill’s list of exhibitions include galleries and museums from such venues as South Corea, Japan, Findland, etc. as well as all across the US. His works belong to prestigious private (IBM, the Bank of America, Eastman Kodak, among others) and public collections (Chicago Art Institute, MoMa New York, Museum of Modern Art San Francisco etc.). He has also taught extensively at UCLA, UCIrvine, Art Center in Pasadena, and lectured in numerous universities.At age 68, the extend work of the artist never failled to answer his never-ending search of light.