Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art
2020 Baltimore, Suite 1N
Kansas City, MO 64108
Contact: Charlotte Eisel Matthews
Phone: 816.421.5665
For Immediate Release
The Byron C. Cohen Gallery is pleased to host Barbara OBrien, Curator for the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, as she presents a talk on the work of Lesley Dill, Saturday, February 6, 2010, 1:15pm at the Byron C. Cohen Gallery.
Our current exhibit Lesley Dill : The Strange Experience of Beauty will be on display through March 26.
Lesley Dill Artist Statement :
Radiance is a fierce word for me, not a soft one. When we breathe and when we speak we divide light. Speech is given out of our mouths and off of our bodies as a kind of radiance. These human rays of targeted meaning reach out and allow for a separation of the physical luminous heat. Radiance implies a concentration of energy in an object, or person, that by nature of its intensity must fling out, must expand so it is discernible as deserving this word. I find I think or say this to myself a few times a day. Repetitive use of language can be obsessive and nervous (Kafka "I am a hesitation before birth, my life is a hesitation before birth"), explanatory ("I have given my whole life to words, chewed this dog hunger into a long meal"), mantra like in a soothing indecipherable way, or a linguistic touchstone a word or words that locate you regardless of setting. Or more inner word(s) as song. The power of language to affect as private murmur is so varied and complex. I find I often use the same language over and over, and for me, it always seems to mean something different, and something is learned.
Please see the attached image.
Image info is as follows:
Lesley Dill
Homage to N.S., 1997
photolithograph, screen print & etching
34 x 43 inches
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