Guy Dill
Untitled1971, restored 2011

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Artist or Maker: Guy Dill
Title: Untitled
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1971, restored 2011
Medium: Cotton straps, manila line, glass, steel pad eyes, and steel hook
Dimensions: Installed: 122 × 48 × 212 in. (309.88 × 121.92 × 538.48 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Becky and Peter Smith
Accession Number: M.81.227
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Contemporary Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.
Selected Bibliography: Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.
Copyright: © Guy Dill

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Not on view

Artist or Maker: Guy Dill
Title: Untitled
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1971, restored 2011
Medium: Cotton straps, manila line, glass, steel pad eyes, and steel hook
Dimensions: Installed: 122 × 48 × 212 in. (309.88 × 121.92 × 538.48 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Becky and Peter Smith
Accession Number: M.81.227
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Contemporary Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.
Selected Bibliography: Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.