John Dilg (born 1945) is an American painter based in the

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. He is known for idiosyncratic landscapes that use a pared-down visual vocabulary drawing on imagination,

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artifacts,

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and art historical sources.Yau, John
"With an Eye to Our Common Future,"
''Hyperallergic'', December 18, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2018.Farago, Jason

''The New York Times'', p. C12, July 9, 2021. Retrieved October 12, 2023.McQuaid, Cate. "'This Land’ is small land," ''The Boston Globe'', December 31, 2013, p. G3–4. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Critics describe them as dreamlike ruminations on place, the fragility of nature, the

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and mystical storytelling.Johnson, Ken
"Art Guide – Galleries: Soho,"
''The New York Times'', March 24, 2000. Retrieved July 17, 2018.Higashino, Yuki
"John Dilg, Galerie Eva Presenhuber,"
''Artforum'', April, 2023. Retrieved October 12, 2023.Block, Louis
"John Dilg: Flight Path,"
''The Brooklyn Rail'', July-August 2021. Retrieved October 12, 2023.Wilson, Michael. "John Dilg Speaks to Michael Wilson," ''New American Paintings'', August-September, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Precedents for his work that have been cited include 19^th-century Romantic landscape painters,

Marsden Hartley Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin. Early life and education Hartley was born ...

Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of Amer ...

and

Horace Pippin Horace Pippin (February 22, 1888 – July 6, 1946) was a self-taught American artist who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical subjects. Some of his best-known work ...

, and the imaginary vistas of

Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910)
at the In 2016,

John Yau John Yau (born June 5, 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction ...

wrote that Dilg's landscapes, "arise out of the collision of observation and memory, things seen and the history of painting remembered," evoking an "otherworldly hush and reverence." Curator Terri C. Smith wrote, "Dilg makes objects that are at once naïve and sophisticated, familiar and enigmatic. The tension in the paintings between known and unknown, fine art and found art along with their small scale encourages a very intimate, personal viewing experience."Smith, Terri C
"John Dilg and Karsten Krejcarek,"
Exhibition essay, New York: Regina Rex, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Dilg was a professor in the School of Art and Art History at the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is org ...

for over four decades, before retiring as Professor Emeritus in 2017.Zevitas, Steven
"You Had Me at Hello: 150 Contemporary Artworks That Altered My Consciousness - Part 1,"
''New American Paintings'', January 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2018.University of Iowa
"John Dilg, Professor Emeritus,"
People. Retrieved July 17, 2018. He lives in Iowa City, and is married to Jan Weissmiller, poet and owner of Prairie Lights Books.''The Daily Palette''
"Jan Weissmiller,"
The University of Iowa. Retrieved July 17, 2018.Berg, Zach
"The 40-year history of Prairie Lights bookstore, an Iowa literary institution,"
''Iowa City Press-Citizen'', May 29, 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2018. His work belongs to the public art collections of the

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,Lanyon, Ellen
"Seven by Nine Times Two,"
''Art Journal'', Summer, 1980, p. 276-278. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Museu d'Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni (Spain) and

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, among others.

Life and career

Dilg was born in

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in 1945 and spent his childhood in the

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-area with summers in rural Iowa.Conklin, Jo-Ann. "Souvenirs of the Walk," ''John Dilg: Paintings 1994–1998'' (Catalogue), Iowa City, IA: The University of Iowa, 1998.Rhodes College
"John Dilg,"
Clough-Hanson Gallery. Retrieved July 17, 2018. He earned a BFA degree in painting and filmmaking at

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in 1969 and studied at the

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in India (1971–2) through a Fulbright Scholarship. In 1973, during a Yaddo artist residency, he met artist and future mentor Byron Burford, who recruited him to teach at the University of Iowa.''Des Moines Register''
"Byron Burford 1920–2011,"
Obituaries. June 21, 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Dilg's earliest work consisted of large, gestural, Abstract Expressionist canvasses. By the 1980s, his paintings featured more regular, dark lines separating abstract planes of color that engaged the picture edges; writers compared them to the work of

Richard Diebenkorn Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he bega ...

and—despite their abstraction—to the quirkier

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.Firestone, Evan, "Landscape and Abstraction," in ''Abstracted Landscape: Four Iowa Painters'' (Catalogue), Ames, IA: Octagon Center for the Arts, 1986. During this period, he exhibited solo at Roy Boyd Gallery in Chicago (1978–83)Queen, Larry. "John Dilg, Gordon Powell," ''New Art Examiner'', November 1983. and in group shows at the

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Butler Institute of American Art The Butler Institute of American Art, located on Wick Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, was the first museum dedicated exclusively to American art. Established by local industrialist and philanthropist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., the museum h ...

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, and N.A.M.E. Gallery, among others.Findsen, Owen. "Art," ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'', September 21, 1980, p. F-9.Hayakawa, Alan. "Dilg Paintings Play Around Edges of Representation," ''The Oregonian'', September 25, 1982, p. E7.Nugent, Bob L. ''Chicago Abstract Painting'' (Catalogue, traveling exhibition), Rohnert Park, CA: Sonoma State University Art Gallery, 1982. In the late 1980s, Dilg began a decade-long shift toward more restrained flat surfaces and simpler, centralized compositions. A solo exhibition at the Evanston Art Center in 1996 marked his transition from purely formal concerns towards narrative and vaguely referential forms.Artner, Alan G. "Season Preview," ''Chicago Tribune'', September 10, 1995. This work brought him greater attention, including representation by Luise Ross Gallery in New York and shows there (e.g., at

Andrea Rosen Gallery Andrea Rosen Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, founded by Andrea Rosen in 1990. With two locations in the Chelsea neighborhood, the gallery specializes in contemporary and modern art, representing an international group of establishe ...

, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. and Jeff Bailey Gallery) and elsewhere.Leffingwell, Edward. "John Dilg at Luise Ross," ''Art in America'', June 2002, p. 125. Retrieved July 17, 2018.Lockwood, Wes. "Patient Process," ''New Art Examiner'', May-June 2001, p. 101.Suhre, Terry, ''Perfect Memories'' (catalogue), St. Louis, MO: University of Missouri-St. Louis, Gallery 210, 2001. In the 2000s, Dilg shifted to small, exactingly composed paintings of iconic, glyph-like forms that ranged from fully abstract shapes to barely recognizable animals and landscape elements, as in ''Hide'' (2001); ''New York Times'' critic Ken Johnson described them as exuding "a modest archetypal mystery." This work increasingly referenced vernacular sources, reflecting Dilg's interests in the function of the souvenir as a carrier of recollected times, events and stories. Since 2000, Dilg has had solo exhibitions at the

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Figge Art Museum.
John Dilg: Arterial Resources
" Exhibitions. Retrieved July 29, 2018. and

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(Memphis), and galleries including Galerie Eva Presenhuber (New York/Vienna, 2021–3),Yau, John. ''Flight Path'', New York: Galerie Eva Presenhuber, 2021. Retrieved October 12, 2023.Evans, Franklin. ''Leaving the New World'', New York: Galerie Eva Presenhuber, 2023. Retrieved October 12, 2023. Regina Rex and Luise Ross (2000–11) in New York,Johnson, Stacey. Review (Luise Ross Gallery exhibition), ''MAKE Magazine'', 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2018.Regina Rex
"John Dilg and Karsten Krejcarek,"
Exhibitions. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Taymour Grahne (London/New York),Taymour Grahne
"Natural Memory, John Dilg,"
Exhibitions. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Steven Zevitas (Boston),Steven Zevitas Gallery
"John Dilg,"
Artists. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Steve Turner Gallery (Los Angeles), Devening Projects (Chicago),Yau, John
"The Studio Visit That Wasn’t Exactly a Studio Visit: Dan Devening, Mie Kongo, Peter Shear,"
''Hyperallergic'', February 19, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2018. National Exemplar (Iowa City), and Schmidt Contemporary Art (St. Louis).Bonetti, David. "John Dilg: Recent Work," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', January 27, 2008''.'' Retrieved July 17, 2018. Writers John Yau and Steven Zevitas contend that the late-career national recognition Dilg has received was overdue, the delay a likely result of his (in Yau's words) residing in a "fly-over state."

Mature work and reception

By 2006, Dilg committed to a spare landscape mode that ''New York Times'' critic

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later termed "cartoon-visionary."Smith, Roberta. "Like Watching Paint Thrive," ''The New York Times'', June 28, 2012, p. C21, 26. Retrieved July 17, 2018. In these small-scale paintings, he engages his subject less as historically specific sites than as stylized, general signs that metaphorically record and convey his relationship with the land. They bring together diverse sources and precedents in a singular, personal vision—among them, 19th-century

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, Japanese woodcuts, Early Renaissance landscapes, self-taught art, vintage postcards and game boards, thrift-store paint-by-number paintings and handmade signs.Koeppel, Fredric. "Subdued palette and spare images belie paintings' implications," ''GO Memphis'', November 23, 2012.Dobbins, Hamlett. "Sources in Another World," Catalog essay, Memphis, TN: Rhodes College, Clough-Hanson Gallery, 2012. Dilg's interest in tourist and folk-art sources stems from a desire to recover the immediacy, sense of wonder and discovery, and uncanniness of such imagery—qualities often trained out of professional artists.McQuaid, Cate
"The year in galleries: closed doors, open horizons,"
''The Boston Globe'', December 23, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2018. His carefully selected and composed pictorial elements often tap into the power of primal subjects: waterfalls and gorges (e.g., ''On Another Planet'', 2012), towering sequoia forests and evergreens, and formations like Yosemite's

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that evoke the American West of 19th-century artists like

Albert Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was no ...

and

Thomas Moran Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth too ...

, as well as the Gothic, moonlit landscapes of German Romantics, such as

Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscape ...

.Koeppel, Fredric
"Memphis' top exhibitions rife with revelations,"
''GO Memphis'', Best of List, 10 best exhibitions of 2012, December 27, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2018.McQuaid, Cate. "American mystic," ''CateMcQuaid.com'', January 2, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Dilg applies his paints with a flat, dry, scumbled approach, seamlessly layering thin color gradations over charcoal-line drawings that often reveal hints of underpainting to create a halo-effect around his forms. He allows the rough weave of the canvas to show through, which gives the paintings a nubby, fresco-like materiality as well as an almost pixelated appearance.Devening Projects
"John Dilg,"
Artists. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Dilg works with a subtly shifting, restricted palette of

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greens, pale blues, and sandy or greyed browns that has been described as evoking Midwest prairies, the veiled light created by misty Pacific Northwest rains, and deep geologic time.Cooper, Ivy
"John Dilg: Recent Paintings,"
''Riverfront Times'', May 5, 2004. Retrieved July 17, 2018.Butcher, Dwayne
"Painter’s Painter: Work by John Dilg at Clough-Hanson,"
''Memphis Flyer'', November 22, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2018. ''New York Times'' critic Jason Farago wrote that this restrained tonal range called to mind the color approaches of

Giorgio Morandi Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, b ...

Agnes Martin Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004), was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Mart ...

and

Luc Tuymans Luc Tuymans (born 14 June 1958) is a Belgian visual artist best known for his paintings which explore people's relationship with history and confront their ability to ignore it. World War II is a recurring theme in his work. He is a key figure ...

, as well as classical Korean ceramics. Critics have characterized Dilg's mature work as enigmatic, "quasi-mystical" and deliberative.Davis, Maggie
"'Soft Eyes' group show hovers between familiar and strange, at Whitespace,"
''ArtsAtlanta'', September 3, 2015. Retrieved July 17, 2018. The ''Boston Globe'''s Cate McQuaid wrote that its "almost pictographic simplicity" and "incantatory energy" pulls viewers "into an intimate, low-key exchange, quiet and deeply felt" while suggesting monumental forms and vast pictorial space. Reviewers have also noted an element of humor that often emerges through single, odd details, as in ''Natural Wonder'' (2007) and ''Headdress'' (2011),Steven Zevitas Galler
''Headdress'', John Dilg
Artists. Retrieved July 26, 2018. in which a dominant rock formation transforms, respectively, into an enormous torso and a head.Zevitas, Steven. "15 Artists to Watch in 2015," ''HuffPost'', December 16, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2018.Gay, Malcolm
"St. Louis Art Capsules,"
''Riverfront Times'', January 16, 2008. Retrieved July 17, 2018. In reviews of Dilg's 2021 show, "Flight Path" (Galerie Eva Presenhuber), writers suggested that nostalgia gave way to ambivalent and elegiac references to humanity's impact on the landscape. For example, in ''Approaching Future'' (2017), a shrinking glacier expels tiny ice floats topped with Christmas-tree pines into the sea; ''Improvements'' (2020) depicts a leveled forest-scape speckled with tree stumps resembling rock formations.

Recognition

Dilg's work belongs to the public collections of the

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,Arkansas Art Center
Collection
. Retrieved July 17, 2018.

,Figge Art Museum
John Dilg, ''Iowa City Landscape #32''
Collections. Retrieved October 12, 2023.

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,''ArtDaily''
"John Dilg now represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber,"
News, 2021. Retrieved October 12, 2023. Museu d'Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni (Spain),Museu d´Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni
John Dilg
Artists. Retrieved October 12, 2023.

,Saint Louis Art Museum
''Phoenix'', John Dilg
Collection. Retrieved October 12, 2023. and Stanley Museum of Art.Kent State University
"John Dilg – Artist Talk,"
School of Art, Events. Retrieved October 12, 2023. He has been awarded fellowships from the

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Foundation and

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, and received a

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Additional professional activities

In addition to his teaching career at the University of Iowa, Dilg has been a visiting artist at more than forty institutions, including the

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, and

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. He has also collaborated with the poets

Marvin Bell Marvin Hartley Bell (August 3, 1937 – December 14, 2020) was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa. Biography Bell was raised in Center Moriches, Long Island. He served in the U.S. Army from 196 ...

Lyn Hejinian Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is known for her landmark work ''My Life'' (Sun & Moon, 1987, original version Burning Deck, 1980), a ...

, and Tomaz Salamun on letterpress broadsides, and with poet

Timothy Donnelly Timothy Donnelly (born June 3, 1969, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American poet. Life He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University's MFA in Creative Writing program. He is an associate profe ...

, on the book ''Die neue Sicht der Dinge'' (2008).Donnelley, Timothy
''Die neue Sicht der Dinge''
Germany: Lux Books Americana, 2008. Retrieved July 17, 2018.

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

* 2023:
Leaving the New World
', Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, AT * 2021:
Flight Path
', Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY, US * 2020: ''Recurring Dreams'', online, Taymour Grahne Gallery, London, UK * 2019: ''Arterial Resources'', 10-year survey, Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, US * 2019: ''Features'', Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US * 2018: ''Deep Water Prairie'', Devening Projects, Chicago, IL, US * 2016: ''Natural Memory'', Taymour Grahne, New York, NY, US * 2013: ''This Land is Your Land'', Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA, US * 2012: ''In Another World'', Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, US * 2011: ''Primitive Pets'', Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, US * 2008: ''Recent Work'', Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, US * 2007: ''Natural Re-Visions'', Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, US * 2004: ''Recent Work'', Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, US * 2002: ''Recent Work'', Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, US * 2000: ''Recent Work'', Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, US

References

External links

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John Dilg speaking about his work
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