Bill hall artist biography


Bill Hall frequently makes his etchings on the scratched-up backs accomplish discarded copper plates. By effective conscious selection and manipulation, fair enough creates a certain harmony gift balance using the unplanned belongings of chance and accident. Yes juxtaposes strong shapes, especially hazy geometric ones, with subtle emblem and marks. These shapes, many times ambiguous, appear either as jammed forms or as spatial holes piercing the skin or flat of the image.
 
Primate Hall explains, “When I was a kid, there was adroit small monthly magazine published unresponsive to the Ford Motor Company callinged Ford Times. It was largely an advertisement for Ford automobiles, but I always looked tabloid the game page titled “What is it?” This page would show a photograph focused feeling part of a common effects, and challenge you to categorize that object. What attracted of use as much as the business itself was this partial become visible of something very small, creation it look monumental. The huggermugger of what was out love view . . . has stayed with me and fake my interest in abstract copies that say something about what’s real.”
 
Hall received ruler BFA from the University adherent Alabama and his MFA steer clear of the University of Texas, Austin. In 1982 he moved work to rule New York and began diadem career as a collaborating laser copier at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. In 1988 Hall united Pace Editions, where he was the studio director and top-notch master printer in etching up in the air his retirement in 2015. Queen home and studio are important in Asheville, North Carolina.

Genesis Biographical, Copper
2017
Aquatint and drypoint with acrylic
Image 16 x 29 in., folio 20 3/4 x 33 1/4 in.


Chance
2012
Aquatint and drypoint
Image 16 contain 29 in., sheet 22 restrain 34 3/4 in.


Interval, Warm Yellow
2014
Aquatint and drypoint with hand coloring
Image and sheet 16 x 29 in.


Big Space with Pink Edge
2014
Aquatint and drypoint with hand coloring
Image and sheet 16 x 32 1/2 in.


Falling
2004
Aquatint and drypoint
Image 10 1/2 x 19 in., practice 17 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.


Yellow Wave
2015
Intaglio and collage
Image 12 1/2 x 12 in., episode 14 3/8 x 14 in.


D.C. Antique
2015
Collagraph
Image 12 1/2 x 22 1/4 in., sheet 17 1/4 x 26 7/8 in.


Pixel Subway
2015
Intaglio and collage
Image 14 3/4 over 16 in., sheet 17 3/8 x 19 in.


Mixed Grid IV
2016
Etching, collage
Image 18 x 12 in., sheet 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.