LEE ALBERT HILL: SIGNS
June 13th - July 11th, 2020
Location: 6448 Hwy 290 E., Suite A102, Austin, TX 78723
Gallery Talk and Virtual Walk-Through
Saturday June 27th, 202o ~ at 2:00pm Gallery Director and co-founder Troy Campa visited with artist Lee Albert Hill about the exhibit and his artistic practice. This 27 minute video focuses on Lee’s background and process. We have also created several mini one to three minute videos focusing on the stories behind each piece in the show. These smaller Art Stories can be seen on our Social Media channels including our YouTube Channel here.
Limited Edition Exhibit Catalog
This perfect bound soft cover catalog is limited to an edition of 50. Sized 9" x 6", with 40 full color page. Each copy is signed by the artist. Contents include:
Photos of all artworks in the exhibition
Photos of the exhibit installed
Exhibit statement
Abbreviated Artist biography
Artist CV
Cost of $25.00 each.
Purchase the catalog online HERE or contact the gallery.
Images from the exhibit: scroll through and click image to enlarge
The work of Texas-based painter Lee Albert Hill follows a strictly process driven formal vision. Characteristically his technique combines precise hard-edged mark-making elements in the foreground, with backgrounds, compositions, and textures that are informal in nature. Abstractions of their original inspirations, the resulting artworks also oftentimes obscure the true nature and process of their hand made production.
Hills artworks impart a quality of permanence; quickly revealing a sense of genealogy, flatness, and inscribed time, all which are anchored by the basic ideas of mark making, symbology and written language. Simply stated – “Signs”.
Cultures through the centuries have used signs to indicate places, give directions and convey stories; we see Hill using his artwork to do the same. Some artworks are inspired by specific moments at specific places. For example, “Elsinore Super Bloom” is inspired by the annual super bloom of poppies on lake Elsinore in California.
Other artworks recall stories of people or events, such as “Minty on the Bowery”, named after the late great controversial performance artist Leigh Bowery and his short-lived band, Minty.
Finally, some artworks are created with the physical marks of a specific place and time. The Bluestem series is created with a process that allows the blades of the Bluestem grasses and the weather of North Texas to literally make their marks on the canvas before Hill even begins his manipulations.
Much as a writer scribbles down thoughts and events of the day in their journal, Lee Albert Hill uses his consistent formal visual language to create his own journal of signposts to his memories.
Signs is Lee Albert Hill’s first solo exhibition with CAMIBAart Gallery.
Artwork: Bluestem 36 ~ 2020 ~ 36” x 48”
In his own words:
“My work uses a language of precise mark making combined with a perception of nature that celebrates random patterns. The relationship between the random and the geometric plays out across the canvas as a story of our contemporary tension with nature.”
Artwork: Minty on the Bowery ~ 2019 ~ 12” x 12”