Sculptor
Laddie John
Dill.
Working in Los Angeles, CA
About the Artist
Light, concrete, sand, and time.
Laddie John Dill is a Los Angeles artist whose career spans the California Light and Space movement and its aftermath. He works in sculpture, drawing, and mixed media, often combining industrial materials — glass, concrete, steel — with natural ones. His installations involve light in the way that all serious California art eventually involves light: not as a subject but as a condition.
Dill studied at Chouinard Art Institute and showed early work at the Pasadena Art Museum, where he was part of a generation of artists reformulating what sculpture could be. He has exhibited internationally and is represented in major collections on both coasts. He was a friend and collaborator within the broader Los Angeles art world of the 1970s and beyond.
His connection to Lift Trucks reflects Tom Christopher’s deep roots in the Los Angeles art community, where Christopher studied and worked before moving to New York. Both artists share the sensibility of their city: committed to the material, skeptical of the theoretical, and in the end more interested in what the work actually does in a room than in what it means in a catalogue.
“Not a subject but a condition.”
On Light IN CALIFORNIA ART
Featured Work
Works
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Independent studio and gallery on Route 22 in Croton Falls, NY. 50 miles from New York City. Open by appointment.