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Normandy, Field Hospital, France, 1944 Photo courtesy Lee Miller Archive, UK 850 acre family dairy and arable farm, Penrose has produced and sometimes directed 18 films, ranging from documentaries on internal parasites in cattle and sheep to a surrealist poem set to pictures. Lesley Dill is an artist who seeks to embody the intuition of poetry in the tangibility of materials. She often uses paper as a medium for her sculptural works, as the transient vehicle of text to define a fragile form in space. Dill excerpts the work of the 19th-century American poet and recluse Emily Dickinson, whose delicate and precarious vision and economy of language sometimes reaches incredible depths of emotional precision. Dill creates photographic images in concert with the text to reanimate the poetry in everyday life: Estranged from beauty none can be, for beauty is infinity. In January and February, Presentation House Gallery will present two billboard projects by Leslie Dill that were originally conceived for a public art project in Tampa, Florida. Each billboard poster combines a hand-lettered phrase from a Dickinson poem, with a face or figure on a black ground.The results, presented along the roadside, serve to relate thought and action, spirit and body, by the intervention of poetry into the pragmatic trajectory of the urban street. Contrary to the bold and targeted message of advertising, these delicate phrases and simple images encourage contemplation, creating a noncommercial space. Dill uses friends and acquaintances as her subjects and relies on handwritten text to incorporate the ordinary and personal in the life of the artwork.These pieces subtly subvert the marketplace in their affirmation of life. Lesley Dill lives and works in N e w York City. She studied at Smith College and received her Master of Karen Love is Director/Curator at Presentation House Gallery; Karen Henry is Adjunct Curator. The Legendary Lee Miller: Photographer 1907-1977, is on view at Presentation House Gallery until the end of February. On Saturday, January IS, at 2 pm, Antony Penrose will give a lecture titled Lee Miller: Muse and Surrealist Artist. Lesley Dill's billboard projects will be on view in January and February on the corner of Georgia and Homer Streets in downtown Vancouver, across from the Vancouver Public Library. Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute of A r t in 1980. Her work has been shown extensively in N o r t h America. Rillboards by Lesley Dill