10/04/2026
This Tuesday, October 6 at 6pm—
join us for an evening with New York-based artist Lesley Dill, whose artwork is featured in the current exhibition, "The Art of Paper," and in the Asheville Art Museum Collection.
Dill will talk about her projects that involve paper and collaboration, from huge community and large-scale installations to the intimate creation of artist books and sculptures, as well as her work with artists, poets, students, and printmaking studios, such as Tamarind and Dieu Donne.
Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art in sculpture, printmaking, installation and performance, exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche. Her artworks are in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Asheville Art Museum. In 2017 she was named a fellow of The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
“Paper is about fingertip energy for me. The way one moves in to touch paper is like no other approach. It’s as if each finger has a little imaginary rocketship in it. We touch nothing else the way we touch paper. Paper is the medium of intimacy. The end result is wonder. All printmaking begins with the choice of what paper and in this way, it is about a relationship to fragility and force. This relationship comes from Poetry.” —Lesley Dill.
Lesley Dill, "Unraveled Light (Yellow)," 2001, lithograph with collage and string on paper, 40 ¼ × 28 ¾ inches. Gift of Ray Griffin and Thom Robinson, Asheville Art Museum.
