Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming arts events to mark your calendar for. This weekend, a traveling exhibition organized by Chattanooga’s Hunter Museum of American Art, I Heard A Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill brings nearly 30 of the acclaimed contemporary artist’s works — with an emphasis on sculptural installations — to St. Petersburg.
Poetic and psychologically charged, Dill’s constructions often combine fabric and figures (or dress forms) with text to spellbinding effect; works featured in I Heard A Voice respond to poetry by Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu and Franz Kafka. Expect to be moved by the artist’s ideas and awed by her craft. (Pictured: "Breathing Leaves" (2004) Ink, thread, glue on tea-stained fabric, courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada) Oct. 10-Dec. 27, Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach Dr. NE, St. Petersburg, 727-896-2667, fine-arts.org. – Megan Voeller
This article appears in Sep 30 – Oct 7, 2009.
