Contemporary New York-based mixed-media artist Lesley Dill will discuss her work as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
The talk is free and open to the public at 7 p.m. April 11 in the Millstone Gallery of the Center of Creative Arts (COCA), 524 Trinity Ave. An exhibition of Dill’s work, “The Thrill Came Slowly (Prints and Multiples 1990-2005),” is on view at COCA through April 29.
Dill creates highly imaginative and powerful mixed-media works that integrate language and image. Her pieces are characterized by the use of a wide range of materials — including rice paper, wax, charcoal, horsehair and tea — that together create rich layers of meaning and emotional content.
Born in Bronxville, N.Y., Dill earned a bachelor’s in English from Trinity College before earning master’s degrees from Smith College and the Maryland Institute of Art. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally.
Her work is included in numerous collections, notably those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Kansas City, Mo.; and the Yale Art Museums in New Haven, Conn.
For more information, call 725-1834, ext. 156, or visit cocastl.org.