Front, Lesley Dill; Landfall Press

Artwork Overview

Lesley Dill, artist
born 1950
Landfall Press, printer and publisher
active 1970–2004
Front, 1994
Portfolio/Series title: A Word Made Flesh
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: etching; stitching; aquatint; photolithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 624 x 455 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 762 x 567 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 24 9/16 x 17 15/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 30 x 22 5/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 31 1/4 x 23 1/2 x 1 1/4 in
Weight (Weight): 8 lbs
Credit line: Gift of Joe and Barb Zanatta
Accession number: 1996.0175
Not on display

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Disability Visibility: In Conversation with the 2022–2023 KU Common Book

Known for her use of text, Dill has said, “I think of words, and especially the poems of Emily Dickinson, for their embodiment of psychological states of despair and euphoria as metaphors for being, as a kind of spiritual armor, and intervening skin between ourselves and the world.”

Exhibition Label:
"Modernisms: Late/Post," Mar-1997, Deborah J. Wilk
To explore the relationship between language and the body, Lesley Dill scrawls an Emily Dickinson poem onto a female figure. Words, Dill Says, facilitate the way the body negotiates the world by forming a "protective skin" that dresses the body in "vulnerability, fear, and hope."

Dill is less interested in identity politics than most of the artists in this section. Instead, she exposes the stictness of Modernist art criticism that would have prohibited the combination of thread, a craft material, with printmaking.

Exhibitions