Artwork Description
Lesley Dill – Smoke
Dimensions: 25 x 18.5″ paper
Year: 2005
Medium: etching and lithograph
Lesley Dill is an American multimedia artist known for combining language with the human form. She works with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and performance art. Her art focuses on the intersection of language and the human form and draws inspiration from poets and authors such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke, often including their words within her works. Along with words, her art often emulates and references the human figure with clothing. She says “clothing houses the house that houses the soul.” Exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the mind, Dill invests new meaning in the human form with her art as she powerfully reflects on the basic human condition.