Vernissage: Thursday, October 2 at 6 pm
Exhibition: October 3 to 25, 2003
Artist’s talk: Thursday, October 9 at 7:30 pm
Exhibition Press Release:
Montreal artist David Hall presents a new series of landscape paintings that combine real and invented buildings within fictitious urban settings. Hall juxtaposes the disparate styles of European, North American and Asian cities, from Modernist skyscrapers to Medieval churches, to show how power and lack of power are symbolized through architecture and urban organization.
Hall’s paintings reveal a rich, varied surface of oil paint in which selected areas are sanded away. What remains is a ghostly image that is either repainted or left vague. The juxtaposition of non-representational marks next to detailed figuration sets up a tension central to the exploration of fantastic and archetypical vs. accurate depictions of real spaces.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1959, David Hall received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, and a Masters of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. In addition to his studio practice, David Hall teaches in the Fine Arts department of Dawson College. His paintings are included in the collections of the Musée des beaux arts de Montréal, Musée du Québec, Canada Council Art Bank, and several other public and private collections. David Hall is represented by Lilian Rodriguez Gallery in Montreal.