Join The Collection to save, track, and explore works like this.

Guy Dill — Echo Echo small
Guy Dill — Echo Echo small
Guy Dill — Echo Echo small
Guy Dill — Echo Echo small
Guy Dill

Echo Echo small

1996

A compact yet commanding sculpture in steel, Echo Echo small distills Guy Dill's longstanding investigation into geometric form and spatial tension into an intimate scale. Created in 1996, the work presents interlocking planes and angular volumes that invite the viewer to move around the piece, discovering new relationships between solid and void from every vantage point. The steel carries a presence that belies its modest dimensions, with the material's inherent weight and sheen amplifying the work's sense of structural inevitability. Dill, a Los Angeles-based sculptor who came of age during the generative years of Minimalism and continued pushing beyond its orthodoxies, has long been drawn to forms that feel both elemental and quietly complex. Echo Echo small reflects that sensibility with particular clarity, its title suggesting repetition and resonance, qualities that are felt as much as seen. The geometry does not resolve neatly into any single reading but accumulates meaning through the interplay of its repeated formal elements, much as an acoustic echo transforms and enriches the original sound. Signed by the artist and currently available through Glenn Green Galleries, this work represents an excellent entry point into Dill's sculptural practice for collectors seeking pieces of authentic formal intelligence. At 55.9 by 66 by 27.9 centimeters, Echo Echo small is well suited to both domestic and institutional settings, functioning equally as an object of contemplative focus on a pedestal and as a defining presence within a broader collection of postwar and contemporary sculpture.

Medium
Steel
Overall
Signed
Yes

Start the Discussion

Request access to join the discussion

Collectors with works by Guy Dill

About this work

Guy Dill, Echo Echo small, 1996

A compact yet commanding sculpture in steel, Echo Echo small distills Guy Dill's longstanding investigation into geometric form and spatial tension into an intimate scale. Created in 1996, the work presents interlocking planes and angular volumes that invite the viewer to move around the piece, discovering new relationships between solid and void from every vantage point. The steel carries a presence that belies its modest dimensions, with the material's inherent weight and sheen amplifying the work's sense of structural inevitability. Dill, a Los Angeles-based sculptor who came of age during the generative years of Minimalism and continued pushing beyond its orthodoxies, has long been drawn to forms that feel both elemental and quietly complex. Echo Echo small reflects that sensibility with particular clarity, its title suggesting repetition and resonance, qualities that are felt as much as seen. The geometry does not resolve neatly into any single reading but accumulates meaning through the interplay of its repeated formal elements, much as an acoustic echo transforms and enriches the original sound. Signed by the artist and currently available through Glenn Green Galleries, this work represents an excellent entry point into Dill's sculptural practice for collectors seeking pieces of authentic formal intelligence. At 55.9 by 66 by 27.9 centimeters, Echo Echo small is well suited to both domestic and institutional settings, functioning equally as an object of contemplative focus on a pedestal and as a defining presence within a broader collection of postwar and contemporary sculpture.

Medium
Steel
Dimensions
overall: 55.9 x 66 x 27.9 cm
Year
1996
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Glenn Green Galleries

More works by Guy Dill

Collected by

Jim Arnone