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TOM HILL

Tom Hill, one of the featured artists in our October exhibition, Perspective: A Fresh Look at Contemporary Painting and Drawing, discusses his work “Rustic Touch”: “I am drawn to lurid, flashy colors applied with layers of paint and glitter and...

Tom Hill, one of the featured artists in our October exhibition, Perspective: A Fresh Look at Contemporary Painting and Drawing, discusses his work “Rustic Touch”:

“I am drawn to lurid, flashy colors applied with layers of paint and glitter and images lifted from advertising and erotica. My work is infused with a queer and feminist sensibility that focuses on my experience with bodies that have been devalued, discarded, and despised. I use art as a vehicle to push the traditional boundaries of beauty, morality, and respectability.”

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RONALD GONZALEZ

Profile

Ronald Gonzalez, “Profile” “The dramatic tonal range of blacks both obscures and reveals anthropomorphic objects that are brought to life as improbable archetypal beings that provoke a sense of wonder, fear, suffering, and strangeness.” On view now...

“The dramatic tonal range of blacks both obscures and reveals anthropomorphic objects that are brought to life as improbable archetypal beings that provoke a sense of wonder, fear, suffering, and strangeness.”

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CHARITY HENDERSON

Assemblage

Charity Henderson’s “Assemblage” is on view now at Hillyer. Charity uses multiple media and techniques to create a single portrait. “This figure is formed of several sections, some of which are colored, some monochromatic, some detailed, some...

Charity uses multiple media and techniques to create a single portrait. “This figure is formed of several sections, some of which are colored, some monochromatic, some detailed, some blurred. This approach suggests a multifaceted psychology of self which is not easily simplified.”

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ROXANA ALGER GEFFEN

Bildungsroman

Roxana Alger Geffen’s “Bildungsroman” is on view now in Perspective, our October exhibition. “I use graphics and content from the computer game Minecraft as source material. This work explores the many places where Minecraft exploration and real-life...

“I use graphics and content from the computer game Minecraft as source material. This work explores the many places where Minecraft exploration and real-life exploration, including parenting, overlap visually, emotionally, and structurally.”

 

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EMILY GLASS

In Conclusion

Emily Glass, “In Conclusion” “The socially aware figures originate from the study of cadavers in biology labs, insects in university entomology museums, and local herd animals in paddock enclosures. Some issues explored are ideas of self-image,...

“The socially aware figures originate from the study of cadavers in biology labs, insects in university entomology museums, and local herd animals in paddock enclosures. Some issues explored are ideas of self-image, social indifference, and reactions to being watched.”

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