Image: Lee Hall, Puglia: Sun Facade I, 2015, mixed media on canvas, 50inx50in (courtesy of Jerald Melberg Gallery)
November 21, 2023 – May 5, 2024 | Rankin East and Rankin West Galleries
This exhibition brings together a range of Hall’s compositions and begs the question, “What constitutes a landscape?” Moreover, why is landscape as a concept and signifier so persistent across the visual cultures of the past and present? In the case of Hall’s paintings and collages, the artist uses broad swaths of color to build her compositions which are at once visually dense while also flattening the dynamic vistas she interpreted. The New England countryside, rural and urban Mediterranean scenes, and rigorous studies of anomalies in the landscape like quarries and waterways were perennial subjects.
