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Artist, designer, and inventor William Dalziel’s prolific creativity combines the scientist or engineer’s single-minded rational pursuit of answers or solutions with an artistic and philosophical sensitivity and awareness that is founded in a deep love for beauty and grace. Bill holds great appreciation for Asian aesthetics, in particular the Japanese concept of Shibui. Often working in series, the artist usually produces dozens of related images that all seek to resolve a particular aesthetic challenge, allowing him to identify, with precision, exactly how a particular set of visual elements interact and function.
While approaching these “problems” with rigor, Bill remains open to chance occurrence, to serendipity, awaiting the unexpected moment when something stunning and inexplicably beautiful appears. Constantly balancing disciplined, linear, rational methodology with non-linear, spontaneous creativity, Bill follows in the visionary footsteps of friend and mentor Buckminster Fuller. In his appreciation for the (often unexpected) beauty of simple materials and non-traditional materials, Bill carries forward some of the sensibility of Ed Keinholz and other West Coast Funk artists that Dalziel knew and worked with during his early years in Los Angeles as an art student and then later as a architectural draftsman and designer. Still, even when using found objects and discarded materials, Bill's mature work retains a high degree of artistic finish and sophistication, largely devoid of abject elements.
Over the past three decades Bill has also built a successful specialty engineering design and contracting firm and raised four children, while continually producing his artwork. This website is part of a larger project to compile and catalogue the approximately 800 completed works in his archive and share them with a broader public. |
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