Victoria Franklin-Dillon, MFA
Tory Dillon is an installation sculptor. Her works range from temporary conceptually driven installations using recycled materials, sound, video, and interactive components to permanent landscaped exterior spaces with plantings, benches, walkways and bronze objects. Her most recent installations have been for the Bloomsburg First Nights where over 1000 people have participated in her resolution projects on Main St. She is an artist in the Schools for the State of PA, serving residencies in the eastern half of PA. She designed and installed the entrance garden with 10' diameter bronze landscape of PA for the US Veteran's Center in Scranton. Her works have been featured in the Art of the State at the PA state Museum three times. Installations have been shown at Bucknell Center Art Gallery, Allentown Art Museum, Mayfair Festivals, Grounds for Sculpture in NJ, and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Her interests range from ancient to avant garde practices with incorporation of anagama fired clay components into contemporary installation statements. She helps fire the Beamer/Kanzaki Anagama Dream Kiln in Bloomsburg, PA. Dillon has focused on Bundle as Metaphor for human activity. She is working on a Bundle and Boulder piece utilizing the anagama firing process and another cloth bundle work, Life Spiral, involving numerous bound doll like bundles in many materials and colors all joined together in a spiral of life. Her current completed environment, House, was a centerpiece of the Art of the State in the Summer of 1999.
All images © Victoria Franklin-Dillon.