Press Release for Byron Cohen Gallery
The Byron C. Cohen Gallery will continue the exhibition Lesley Dill : The Strange Experience of Beauty during First Friday, March 5th from 7 - 9 pm. The show will be on view through March 26th.
Lesley Dill's 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
Poem Voice #2, 1995
oil stick, paint, tea and wire on muslin
152 x 45 inches
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Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art
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