Laddie John Dill
Untitled Light Sentence1971

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Artist or Maker: Laddie John Dill
United States, California, Long Beach, born 1943
Title: Untitled Light Sentence
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1971
Medium: Argon, glass tubing welded sections, transformers and wires
Dimensions: Neon tube: 74 x 1/2 in. (187.96 x 1.27 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Barry Lowen
Accession Number: M.80.236.10
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Contemporary Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.
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: © Laddie John Dill

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Artist or Maker: Laddie John Dill
United States, California, Long Beach, born 1943
Title: Untitled Light Sentence
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1971
Medium: Argon, glass tubing welded sections, transformers and wires
Dimensions: Neon tube: 74 x 1/2 in. (187.96 x 1.27 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Barry Lowen
Accession Number: M.80.236.10
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Contemporary Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.
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.