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Alice Dillon
This Too Shall Pass
thread on duck canvas fabric
7.5″ x 10.25″ unframed, 11″ x 14″ framed
2022
$650
“This Too Shall Pass” is from a series of pages ripped from an imaginary notebook of phrases suddenly adopted into mainstream vocabulary during the Covid-19 pandemic. Each phrase depicted has often been used to gloss over the devastating realities of the medical, social, and political upheavals that have characterized the past few years. The repetition of the text points to how often our leaders, politicians, and institutions say these words, whether or not they commit to the issues behind them. The piece is made from duck canvas fabric, with machine-stitched notebook lines and hand-stitched lettering.
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Alice Dillon
Breakstone’s
Inspired by: Evelyn Rydz, Gulf Pile John Willis, Recycled Realities 1 Winslow Homer, Gathering Berries
thread and alcohol ink marker on butter wrapper
5″ x 6″
2022
Relationship of the work from the Fitchburg Art Museum: I see an association to the texture in “Bulldozer Slash” by photographer Robert Adams to the textures in my painting.
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Alice Dillon
Dabey’s Apple Pie
Inspired by: Adriaen van Otade, Company in a Tavern
quilted and appliquéd fabric, thread
12″ x 26″
2023
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