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Laddie John Dill, a native California artist, is primarily interested in the interaction of earth materials and man made materials ie: glass, cement, natural oxides, steel, water, light reflection. Work is architectually specific.

Although his work does not reflect any obvious influences, he acknowledges strong debts to Matisse and to extensive dialogs he has had with other artists, especially Robert Smithson. But the elegance of Matisse and the raw grandeur of Smithson have been incorporated in ways that make it difficult or impossible to isolate and identify such elements, and today Dill’s paintings reflect what can only be called his own mythology and style.

One can see strong metaphors for the earth in Dill’s choice of materials—cement, glass and pigments—and in his processes of casting, staining, and eroding: visual metaphors for the geological, the ameliorating effects of time, the ebb and flow of water and land, and the changes of weather and season. We sense both Dill’s kinship with the Oriental artist’s immersion in nature and his indifference to the Occidental predisposition to observe and analyze.

Since his first exhibition in 1971 at the Sonnebend Gallery in New York City, Laddie John Dill has presented more than sixty solo exhibitions in public and private galleries throughout the U.S. and in Korea and Finland. In addition his works have been included in more than one-hundred-fifty group exhibitions in galleries and public museums in the U.S., Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and Russia.

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