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Bill Hill's   Recap

"I have worked for years to reduce the stuff of painting to it's simplest expressive elements. These elements are color space and the brushwork that animates them.These things are the building blocks to make structures that parallel and work in a similar way to the stuff that we see out in the world.

 

Things work out nicely when the expression of the landscape equals the other material that makes up the painting. In the paintings for the show, I've used aspects of the last third of the tavern chapter from the Wake. The "character- HCE" under goes a symbolic death death and Joyce amplifies that with the story of Dairmond and Graine. These stories and their treatment move between this world and whatever is next. For me it comes down to dissolving substance(form) into light(color) and space.

 

And that be that."   - Bill Hill  July 6 2016

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