Untitled Light Sentence

© Laddie John Dill
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Untitled Light Sentence

United States, 1971
Sculpture; assemblages
Argon, glass tubing welded sections, transformers and wires
Neon tube: 74 x 1/2 in. (187.96 x 1.27 cm)
Gift of Barry Lowen (M.80.236.10)
Contemporary Art
Not currently on public view

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While working at a neon sign shop, Laddie John Dill learned how to manipulate electrified gases and how to weld, shape, and color glass tubing....
While working at a neon sign shop, Laddie John Dill learned how to manipulate electrified gases and how to weld, shape, and color glass tubing. He applied these skills to his art practice and began creating what he calls his Light Sentences: thin, straight fixtures made of radiant sequences of multicolored light. These works, including Untitled, can be installed vertically or horizontally and cast softly glowing light onto the wall. The “sentence” is the listing, in order, of the specific colors of light; here it is “Robin-Uranium-3500 White-Robin-Turk-Uranium-Sun-Robin-Turk-Uranium-Sun (or 3500 White)-Robin-Turk-Uranium-3500 White-Robin-Turk.”

Exhibition label: Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, Carol S. Eliel.
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Bibliography

  • Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.