[Untitled, Homage: LeWitt]
Raised in rural North Carolina, Hall began his education in architecture at the North Carolina School of the Arts. A scholarship to train with the American Ballet Theater brought him to New York City, after which worked as a fashion model in Paris, Milan, and London. Inspired by European architectural traditions, he pursued a wide-ranging career as photographer of architecture, interior decor, and gardens.
This work, which belongs to Hall's series "Homage: LeWitt," was directly inspired by the work of the American artist Sol LeWitt, a pioneer of Conceptual Art whose rigorous approach to art-making prioritized the idea or system that generates a work of art. With the blessing of the artist's estate, Hall photographed details of LeWitt wall drawings at the Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)--large scale drawings based on detailed instructions, executed directly on gallery walls. Here, he digitally mirrored one detail to create a rectangular form that echoes the rectangle of the photographic paper itself and manipulaed the colors to create an elegant homage that reaches across media from one artist to another.
This work, which belongs to Hall's series "Homage: LeWitt," was directly inspired by the work of the American artist Sol LeWitt, a pioneer of Conceptual Art whose rigorous approach to art-making prioritized the idea or system that generates a work of art. With the blessing of the artist's estate, Hall photographed details of LeWitt wall drawings at the Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)--large scale drawings based on detailed instructions, executed directly on gallery walls. Here, he digitally mirrored one detail to create a rectangular form that echoes the rectangle of the photographic paper itself and manipulaed the colors to create an elegant homage that reaches across media from one artist to another.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Untitled, Homage: LeWitt]
- Artist: John M. Hall (American, Hurdle Mills, North Carolina 1952–2019 New York)
- Date: 2015
- Medium: Inkjet print
- Dimensions: Image: 20 in. × 28 5/8 in. (50.8 × 72.7 cm)
Sheet: 24 in. × 32 5/8 in. (60.9 × 82.9 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, in honor of John C. Waddell, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.400.1
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of John M. Hall
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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