Images from the First Year MFA Exhibit
From January 13—24 2012, my work was a part of The New Sauce exhibition in The Pennsylvania State University’s Zoller Gallery.
Salt Lake Acting Company’s 2011-12 Season Graphics
I was fortunate enough to work on Salt Lake Acting Company‘s season graphics for the second straight year, and here are the resulting season posters that you can see on display at the theatre.
July Gray Wall Gallery Press Release
Press release from July’s Gray Wall Gallery Show in Salt Lake City.
Press Release from Chicago
The press release from the 23rd atmosphere group gallery:
UNEARTHING THE NARRATIVE IN ART TODAY
March 11 thru April 22, 2011
Our March-April, 2011 Show at The 23rd Atmosphere Group Gallery thrusts to the forefront the question: What place does storytelling have in the world of contemporary art? As other media developed—books, photography, movies, TV, the Internet–societies no longer needed to rely on the visual arts to tell their stories, to carry forward their cultural and historical contexts. The visual arts risked becoming extraneous and had to reinvent themselves, slowly and surely, into and through abstraction. But, particularly with minimalism, the visual arts removed themselves so far from any nexus with general human experience that they paradoxically risked the very thing they sought to avoid—becoming extraneous to the world at large. Postmodernism, in this sense, can be viewed as a series of multifaceted attempts by artists to revitalize the visual arts with some measure of their own human experiences. The resuscitation of storytelling is just one example of that effort and it’s beautifully brought to live by the artists participating in our Show.
Returning to us from prior shows are Mathew Hall from Salt Lake City and Mel Smothers from Brooklyn, NY. Joining them are Chicago artists Scott Multer and Robert Furman.
Alt Press Festival
I will be at the Alt Press Festival in Salt Lake City on July 9 1pm–9pm. My work and many other prominent local artists will be on display. More info will be posted as it becomes available.
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Showing in Chicago!
Press Release from 23rd atmosphere Group Gallery show:
UNEARTHING THE NARRATIVE IN ART TODAY
Our March-April, 2011 Show at The 23rd Atmosphere Group Gallery thrusts to the forefront the question: What place does storytelling have in the world of contemporary art? As other media developed—books, photography, movies, TV, the Internet–societies no longer needed to rely on the visual arts to tell their stories, to carry forward their cultural and historical contexts. The visual arts risked becoming extraneous and had to reinvent themselves, slowly and surely, into and through abstraction. But, particularly with minimalism, the visual arts removed themselves so far from any nexus with general human experience that they paradoxically risked the very thing they sought to avoid—becoming extraneous to the world at large. Postmodernism, in this sense, can be viewed as a series of multifaceted attempts by artists to revitalize the visual arts with some measure of their own human experiences. The resuscitation of storytelling is just one example of that effort and it’s beautifully brought to live by the artists participating in our Show.
The Indignant Young Edith Hastings
This piece was completed December 2010. This is an original mixed media book with graphite drawings and altered text. All text, drawings, and book work is by Matthew Hall.
Notes on this piece:
The pages that have been altered were appropriated from chapter IX of Darkness and Daylight by Mary J. Holmes. The chapter name, number and page numbers are intentionally left upon the page as evidence of the original work, and hold little other meaning.
December 2010 Website Skins
Three new skins up on the three sites I maintain. This one of course, matthewhall.info, graywallgallery.com and sportsguidemag.com.
