PROJECTS
Trip Number 003 / John Dill
Sat, May 31
|Xposed Gallery
‘Through the Opening’ is a digital showing of original ink illustrations by John H. Dill III. Raw, surreal, and personal, the work traces a visual journey that began quietly and now opens in an intimate gallery setting. This marks the first public glimpse of a larger body of work still unfolding.
Time & Location
May 31, 2025, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Xposed Gallery, Manhattan
About The Event
About the Work
Trip Number is a series of surreal and intimate, hand-drawn ink illustrations developed over seven years. The drawings emerged from stillness and exploration, through intuitive compositions shaped by trauma, curiosity, psychedelic experience, and decades of visual thinking. Each piece is created in a focused moment of presence, often accompanied by short phrases or poetic fragments.
Themes include dimension hopping, whimsical characters, visual rhythm, humor, repetition and invitations to ponder reality. The recurring use of dots connects to Dill’s retinal injuries in 2013 and 2019. This raw showing reveals a heartfelt and meditative practice to the public eye.
About the Artist
John H. Dill III, aka Dill, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans design, photography, music, and illustration. Born near Boston and raised in the Caribbean, first in St. Thomas and then in Puerto Rico, he grew up in a close-knit family surrounded by the beauty and…