Sally Dill to Exhibit at 91视频 Art Gallery
New York City artist and former Franklin County resident Sally Dill will be featured this summer at the 91视频 Art Gallery.
Dill鈥檚 show will be from July 1 through Aug. 27. It is called 鈥淧ieces鈥� and the exhibit is dubbed, 鈥淧layful Collage Works.鈥�
Dill was born in St. Louis and moved to the Krakow area in 1949 when she was 5 years old. Her family remained in Krakow and Dill graduated from St. Francis Borgia Regional High School before she left the area to attend the University of Saint Mary, Kansas.
She noted that her brother, Tom Dill, is a former teacher and baseball coach at 91视频. He also served on the College鈥檚 board of trustees. He encouraged her to seek a show at 91视频.
Dill worked as an art teacher, on and off, from 1967 to 2001. She first taught art in Blue Springs, Mo., and later Kansas Cit. She moved to New York City in 1995 and took a position as an art teacher at the Claremont Riding Academy.
First Body of Work
Dill began creating paper cuts of human figures in 1988, introducing her into the art world. She utilized the 鈥渂lind contour line method鈥� to cut directly into paper.
鈥淎 focusing of the eyes almost exclusively on the subject as I cut, whereby capturing a gesture 鈥� the essence,鈥� she explained. 鈥淟ater, the cut shapes, positive and negative, move me in unplanned ways to a composition鈥�
Krakow Revisited
Part of Dill鈥檚 show at 91视频 will be her 鈥淜rakow Revisited鈥� collection, which are pieces she created while in Krakow, Mo.
鈥淚t will be nice to show at 91视频 because my roots are in Krakow,鈥� Dill said.
鈥淜rakow Revisited鈥� was inspired by the St. Gertrude Church鈥檚 sesquicentennial celebration in 1995, and her family鈥檚 history in the area. Her great grandfather, Gerhard Voss, settled in Krakow from Germany in the late 1830s.
Dill worked with the sesquicentennial committee to exhibit her Krakow cut photo collages, which included wax and natural elements, such as tree bark from Krakow.
鈥淚 used dogwood, pinewood needles and dirt from the church ground,鈥� she added.
Her work was displayed in the St. Gertrude Catholic School lobby in the spring of 1995 and she worked with schoolchildren as a visiting artist during the display.
New York City
While walking around the streets of New York City, Dill noticed gloves of varying styles and sizes in gutters, and on sidewalks and streets.
鈥淚 am so interested in lost gloves,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hey are such a metaphor for all of humanity. I found so many kinds of gloves 鈥� Children鈥檚, gloves, men鈥檚 and women鈥檚, gloves, work gloves…鈥�
Dill would collect gloves she found abandoned or misplaced on roads and sidewalks, wash them, and incorporate them into her artwork.
Other Works
Dill also creates mixed media collages of found objects displayed in antique frames that she has collected, and other small-format works of cut photo pieces and other paper.
She has exhibited in 40 states and Montreal, Canada, since 1988 and is a signature member of the National Collage society since 2000.
