Image: Laddie John Dill, Quiet Radiance I from the Light Catcher Series, 2026. 6061-T4 aircraft aluminum, welded and polished, 18 x 18 in.
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art in Santa Fe has extended ‘Still Friends After All These Years’, a three-person exhibition of work by Charles Arnoldi, Ron Cooper and Laddie John Dill, until 24 October 2026, according to the gallery’s newsletter. The show opened on 11 September with a reception for the artists, followed the next day by a gallery conversation between the three artists and Rani Singh.
Dill is represented by two series. Panels from his Light Catcher series are made of welded and polished 6061-T4 aircraft aluminium and range from 18 inches square to 96 by 96 inches; most date from 2026, with others from 2021 and 2024. The gallery’s newsletter singles out ‘Quiet Radiance I’ from this series. From his Light Sentence series come ‘Radiant Meridian’ (1979) and ‘Dawn Rising’ (2026), each 80 inches long and built from glass, argon, mercury, electrodes, wiring and a transformer.
Cooper’s selection runs from ‘Light Trap 8305’ (1983), in polyester resin, plexiglass and fibreglass, and ‘Twelve of the Centzon Totochtin (Four Hundred)’ (1990), sign painters’ enamel on lithographed tin more than twelve feet wide, to the glazed ceramic edition ‘Looking at Marcel’ (1989/2023) and ‘Smoking Mirror’ (2023), a small disc of polished obsidian. Two four-foot columns, ‘Luchita’ (2024/2025) and ‘Gabe’ (2026), are made of pearlescent pigment in automotive lacquer and resin on plexiglass.
Arnoldi’s works include an untitled acrylic on wood block from 1981, ‘Ringing Silence’ (1983), acrylic on poplar, and the large canvas ‘Against the Grain’ (2026), measuring 78 by 108 inches. Recent gouaches on paper and a 2026 piece made from repurposed paint, dried and compressed, complete his group.
Taken together, the works on view span more than four decades of each artist’s practice, from pieces made between 1979 and 1983 to works completed this year.
