Artist News Update

Recent Publication

Seven of John Dilg's paintings are reproduced in the book of poetry Die neue Sicht der Dinge gedichte by Timothy Donnelly.



My paintings are incidental images, essential in the history of a life, formed within a pictographic language. In concert with the titles, these images both recollect and recompose important memories that, though personal in premise, could be applicable to anyone. My paintings strive to identify archetypes that represent, among other things, our resignation to the mystery of undiscovered sources and propose that, since nature has been misplaced, the “natural” is always unnatural.
-John Dilg

Education

1969
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, B.F.A. in Painting
1971-1972
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India, Fulbright Scholar

Selected Awards, Grants and Fellowships

1997
University of Iowa, Support Program for the Arts and Humanities
1997, 1991, 1986, 1980
University of Iowa Faculty Development Grant
1981-1982
National Endowment for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship
1971-1972
Fulbright Grant to India

Recent One Person Exhibitions

2008
Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
2007, 01, 00
Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Chidlau Gallery, OH
Galesburg Civic Art Center, IL
University of Missouri, Gallery 210, St. Louis
1996
Evanston Art Center, Center for the Visual Arts, IL
1992
University of Oregon, Eugene
1991
Connecticut College, New London

Recent Group Exhibitions

2009
New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery, Pretty, Strange
2007
Winston-Salem,NC; Selections from Luise Ross Gallery, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University
New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery, RARE BIRDS
2006
New York, NY; Moti Hasson Gallery, Twist it Twice
New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery, Fun!
2005
New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery, New Location
New York, NY; Andrea Rosen Gallery, A Selection of Works from the Luise Ross Gallery
2004
New York, NY; Kraushaar Galleries, Foliage
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, Dan Schimmel and Others
Philadelphia, PA; Esther M. Klein Gallery, Art & Community VI: The Color Project
2002
Memphis, TN; Delta Axis Gallery
2001 Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Patient Process
2000
Heuser Art Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, Sojourns:The Art of John Dilg and Robert Glasgow
Des Moines Art Center, IA, Iowa Artists 2000
1998
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, On Your Mark, 25th Anniversary Exhibition
1996
Evanston Art Center, Center for the Visual Arts IL, Come as You Art
1992
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Iowa Artists' Annual, Catalog

Recent Literature

Johnson, Ken. Review: John Dilg. The New York Times, 24 March, 2000.
Lockwood, Wes. Reviews: Patient Process. New Art Examiner,
  May-June, 2001, p.101.
Leffingwell, Edward. Review: John Dilg. Art in America, June 2002, p. 125.

Public Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Davenport Museum of Art, IA
Rockford College, Rockford, IL
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
Continental Illinois National Bank, Chicago
Harris Bank, Chicago, IL
First Federal Savings and Loan, Iowa City, IA
Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, IA
Jenner and Block, Chicago, IL