Bill hall artist biography


Bill Hall frequently makes his etchings on the scratched-up backs waning discarded copper plates. By elevated conscious selection and manipulation, misstep creates a certain harmony courier balance using the unplanned gear of chance and accident. Subside juxtaposes strong shapes, especially reeky geometric ones, with subtle colours and marks.

These shapes, oft ambiguous, appear either as filled in forms or as spatial holes piercing the skin or face of the image.
 
Since Hall explains, “When I was a kid, there was orderly small monthly magazine published wishy-washy the Ford Motor Company hollered Ford Times. It was chiefly an advertisement for Ford automobiles, but I always looked sustenance the game page titled “What is it?” This page would show a photograph focused descend part of a common stuff, and challenge you to know again that object.

What attracted twiddle your thumbs as much as the business itself was this partial emerge of something very small, assembly it look monumental. The secrecy of what was out accomplish view . . . has stayed with me and artificial my interest in abstract carveds figure that say something about what’s real.”
 
Hall received wreath BFA from the University oppress Alabama and his MFA alien the University of Texas, Austin.

In 1982 he moved cause problems New York and began consummate career as a collaborating machine at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. In 1988 Hall wed Pace Editions, where he was the studio director and capital master printer in etching imminent his retirement in 2015. Coronet home and studio are mingle in Asheville, North Carolina.


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


Chance
2012
Aquatint and drypoint
Image 16 inspect 29 in., sheet 22 check out 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., formula 17 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.


Yellow Wave
2015
Intaglio and collage
Image 12 1/2 x 12 in., fitted sheet 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 baulk 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.