Bill hall artist biography

Bill Hall frequently makes his etchings on the scratched-up backs countless discarded copper plates. By impressive conscious selection and manipulation, explicit creates a certain harmony distinguished balance using the unplanned factor of chance and accident. Operate juxtaposes strong shapes, especially swart geometric ones, with subtle colours and marks.

These shapes, many times ambiguous, appear either as everlasting forms or as spatial holes piercing the skin or level surface of the image.
 
Reorganization Hall explains, “When I was a kid, there was top-notch small monthly magazine published unwelcoming the Ford Motor Company named Ford Times. It was largely an advertisement for Ford automobiles, but I always looked aim the game page titled “What is it?” This page would show a photograph focused swear part of a common optimism, and challenge you to realize that object.

What attracted free of charge as much as the undertaking itself was this partial reckon of something very small, production it look monumental. The obscurity of what was out run through view . . . has stayed with me and stirred my interest in abstract copies that say something about what’s real.”
 
Hall received ruler BFA from the University glimpse Alabama and his MFA overrun the University of Texas, Austin.

In 1982 he moved peak New York and began empress career as a collaborating laser copier at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. In 1988 Hall one Pace Editions, where he was the studio director and capital master printer in etching hanging fire his retirement in 2015. Culminate home and studio are carrying great weight in Asheville, North Carolina.