Opening Reception – Sarah Elise Hall: Composite
December 2, 2017
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Gray Contemporary
3508 Lake Street, Houston Texas 77019


Gray Contemporary is pleased to announce Sarah Elise Hall: Composite. For her first solo exhibition with Gray Contemporary Sarah Elise Hall’s work will be displayed in both rooms of the Gallery. Exhibition opens Saturday, December 2nd from 5 – 8 pm, and will continue through January 6th, 2017.

Sarah Elise Hall:
My work straddles the boundary between sculpture and painting. I use discarded and recycled plastics as molds to create multiple casts. The resulting casts reveal the minimal industrial markings of the containers they come from but also evoke imagery of erosion and fossilization due to the organic casting method and materials. The cast sculpture/paintings, which I refer to as slabs, are made from dry powder pigment, pulverized marble and binder. The palette (black, white and ultramarine blue) is suggestive of geologic materials such as coal, graphite, marble and lapis lazuli.

Through these slabs I’m imagining a fiction about our future environment in which a multitude of disposable and non-biodegradable containers will fossilize and become trace evidence of our 21st century throwaway culture – geological forms in the shape of industrial mass-production.

About the Artist:
Sarah Elise Hall (b.1970, Toronto, ON) received a BFA in studio art from OCAD University in Toronto and an MFA in sculpture from the New York Academy of Art in NYC. Selected solo and group exhibitions include shows with Los Ojos (Brooklyn), Janinebean Gallery (Berlin), the Drabinsky Gallery (Toronto), MUSE Center of Photography and the Moving Image (NYC), Islip Art Museum (Long Island, NY), Soto Velez Cultural Center (NYC). She was awarded the Carriage House Residency at the Islip Art Musuem in Long Island NY in 2012. Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, the Toronto Star, The National Post (Toronto), the Huffington Post, and included Michael Petry’s book Nature Morte; Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life
Tradition published by Thames & Hudson Press. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.


3508 Lake Street, Houston Texas 77019

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