In the early 1970s, Guy Dill made artworks using the utilitarian materials he had encountered during his years in the Coast Guard, including manila line, slackline, steel cables, wood, and glass. As the artist described Untitled, “By pulling on the architecture, which is the way I suspended it, and attaching it to the floor, which gave it a kind of gravity, and then holding it back, which gave it a kind of movement, I was really interested in making everything alive.” Untitled can be understood as part painting, part shadow, and part wall.
Exhibition label: Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, Carol S. Eliel.
