Perry Hall: Paintings

Painter Perry Hall uses a set of experimental techniques that draw upon the organizing principles found in nature. In his Decalcomania paintings, he uses pressure to shape complex networks of interlocking lines and ridges of paint into organic compositions that evoke the notion of 'growing' a painting. In his Livepaintings (time-based paintings), he stimulates paint with temperature changes, vibration, turbulence, and various substances, transforming paint flows into compositions he captures onto video. In the Sound Drawings, sound waves are channeled into a vessel containing oil or Hall paints by changing the qualities of the sound, in effect, 'playing' the paint like a musical instrument. His innovative paintings are a fascinating and beautiful collaboration with "material intelligence" and a meditation on the dynamics found in nature. Over 190 full-color reproductions. For more information and images of Hall's