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Guy Dill — Alee
Guy Dill — Alee
Guy Dill — Alee
Guy Dill — Alee
Guy Dill

Alee

2016

Alee (2016) presents Guy Dill's sculptural thinking at its most resolved, a monumental bronze occupying space with the quiet authority of something both ancient and irreducibly contemporary. Standing nearly two meters tall and extending an equal depth, the work commands its environment rather than merely inhabiting it, its surfaces carrying the warm, complex patina that bronze accumulates through Dill's considered casting process. The title gestures toward nautical shelter, the lee side of a vessel turned away from the wind, and there is indeed something protective and directional in the sculpture's presence, as though it orients the viewer within an invisible field of forces. Dill has spent decades developing a formal language rooted in geometric abstraction while remaining attentive to the weight and memory that physical matter carries, and Alee exemplifies that balance. The work belongs to a sustained body of sculpture that has earned the artist a place among the most significant figures to emerge from the Los Angeles art world of the 1970s, alongside peers who were equally committed to elevating material experience over theoretical abstraction. Bronze here is not merely structural; it is the primary means of meaning, its density and reflective warmth inseparable from what the work communicates. For collectors, Alee represents an exceptional opportunity to acquire a large-scale, signed work from a mature period in Dill's career, offered through Glenn Green Galleries. Works of this scale and medium from established figures of Dill's stature rarely remain available, and the sculpture's commanding dimensions make it suited to institutional settings, significant private collections, or architecturally ambitious residential environments where it can fully define the space around it.

Medium
Bronze
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Guy Dill, Alee, 2016

Alee (2016) presents Guy Dill's sculptural thinking at its most resolved, a monumental bronze occupying space with the quiet authority of something both ancient and irreducibly contemporary. Standing nearly two meters tall and extending an equal depth, the work commands its environment rather than merely inhabiting it, its surfaces carrying the warm, complex patina that bronze accumulates through Dill's considered casting process. The title gestures toward nautical shelter, the lee side of a vessel turned away from the wind, and there is indeed something protective and directional in the sculpture's presence, as though it orients the viewer within an invisible field of forces. Dill has spent decades developing a formal language rooted in geometric abstraction while remaining attentive to the weight and memory that physical matter carries, and Alee exemplifies that balance. The work belongs to a sustained body of sculpture that has earned the artist a place among the most significant figures to emerge from the Los Angeles art world of the 1970s, alongside peers who were equally committed to elevating material experience over theoretical abstraction. Bronze here is not merely structural; it is the primary means of meaning, its density and reflective warmth inseparable from what the work communicates. For collectors, Alee represents an exceptional opportunity to acquire a large-scale, signed work from a mature period in Dill's career, offered through Glenn Green Galleries. Works of this scale and medium from established figures of Dill's stature rarely remain available, and the sculpture's commanding dimensions make it suited to institutional settings, significant private collections, or architecturally ambitious residential environments where it can fully define the space around it.

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
overall: 198.1 x 99.1 x 198.1 cm
Year
2016
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Glenn Green Galleries

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