• John Dilg - Recurring Dreams

    July 9- 30
  • Taymour Grahne is pleased to present Recurring Dreams an online solo exhibition of new drawings by John Dilg, launching virtually...

    Taymour Grahne is pleased to present Recurring Dreams

    an online solo exhibition of new drawings by John Dilg,

    launching virtually on

    July 9, 2020.

     

  • John Dilg b. 1945 Lives and works in Iowa City, IA John Dilg received a B.F.A. in Painting and Filmmaking...

    John Dilg

    b. 1945

    Lives and works in Iowa City, IA

     

    John Dilg received a B.F.A. in Painting and Filmmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.

     

    One and two-person exhibitions include: Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles (2019), Devenig Projects, Chicago (2018), Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY, (2-P), 2014; Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, 2013; Regina Rex, Queens, (2-P), 2013, and Rhodes College, Memphis, 2012. Group exhibitions include Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, 2015; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, 2012; Lesley Heller Workspace, NY, 2011; and Edward Thorp Gallery, NY, 2010.

     

    Dilg’s works are in the collections of several institutions, including the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; the Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, IA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, among others. Reviews include Art in America, The New York Times, The New Art Examiner, The Boston Globe, and Hyperallergic.

     

    John has held institutional solo shows at the Sheldon Museum of Art in 1983 and the Figge Museum of Art in 2019.

     

     

    • Taymour Grahne is pleased to present 'Recurring Dreams' an online solo exhibition of new drawings by Iowa-City based artist John Dilg (b. 1945), launching virtually  on July 9, 2020.

    • 'Recurring Dreams' continues Dilg’s exploration of what remains of our increasingly diminished natural landscape. The identity that the human species shares with the natural environment has become problematic and tenuous as the land itself slips further away.

    • The politics of our daily existence is examined ever more deeply while our larger existence as creatures in this time and in this place becomes less certain. Meanwhile, hope persists in the mysteries of the natural world even as that disappears.

  • The politics of our daily existence is examined ever more deeply while our larger existence as creatures in this time...

    The politics of our daily existence is examined ever more deeply while our larger existence as creatures in this time and in this place becomes less certain.

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  • The identity that the human species shares with the natural environment has become problematic and tenuous

    The identity that the human species shares with the natural environment has become problematic and tenuous

  • Works

  • Please click here for John Dilg's CV