LEE ALBERT HILL: the ELEMENTALS

Exhibit on view:

November 10 - December 10, 2022

Artist Talk:

Saturday November 19, 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Artist Reception:

Saturday November 19, 7:00pm to 8:30pm

The Gallery is open:

Thursday through Saturday, 11:00am to 5:00pm

Other times by appointment using our scheduling tool.

You can also book an appointment by calling 512-937-5921, or emailing Laura@camibagallery.com.

Location:

6448 Hwy 290 E., Suite A102, Austin, TX 78723


Camiba Gallery presents The Elementals, new abstract work by Fort Worth-based artist Lee Albert Hill. The exhibit opens on November 10th and the gallery will host an artist talk on Saturday, November 19th from 6:00 to 7:00pm with a reception immediately following until 8:30pm.

The Elementals reflects the essential human spirit of mark making in response to the invisible forces that inherently exist between the four natural elements: earth, water, air, and fire. The major works in the exhibition address either creation/destruction or the idea of two simultaneous states of being.

The Hopewell Survey is a painting made in response to the cycles of creation and destruction across the American landscape which eventually resulted in the formation of a modern USA. We Americans are both master and victim of this history which has long been reflected in our distinct and divisive politics.

Gravity Well is about the forces of space time and the theory of relativity, each ripe with thoughts on how things can exist in two different states at the same time.

Zero Degrees at Top Dead Center x 3 is a depiction of the position needed to set the timing of an internal combustion engine. Without the proper simultaneous flow of time and energy, the engine does not function.


In the artist’s own words:

We humans may have created elemental beings to help explain natural patterns where none seem to exist and to make a complicated and random world easier to accept. In that sense I do hope that viewers walk away from the exhibit “The Elementals” with a curiosity about the richness of history and our brief time here on the earth and in the cosmos. To quote the astronomer Carl Sagan, “We’re all made of star stuff!” In other words, the basic elements are us. We are the elementals.



About the artist:

Lee Albert Hill is a Texas-based painter, architect and writer who has worked from his studio in Fort Worth for more than twenty-five years. Born in Dallas, he holds a five-year professional degree in Architecture from the Texas Tech University College of Architecture. Working in traditional methods of acrylic on canvas, Hill’s paintings focus on flat geometric patterns in combination with his signature approach of hard-edges, wide brush action-painting and edge to edge compositions. Upon closer look, a sense of storytelling through symbiology is revealed imparting a quality of inscribed time. His work is held in many corporate collections, including American Airlines, Riverside Resources Investments, NYC-based Loews Hotels, The Marriott Corporation, Dublin Ireland’s TIFCO Hotel Group, and SAMTX Investments.


Photos of the exhibit installed - click images to enlarge: