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