Edward J. Sozanski, writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer:
“Hall... brings together shaggy blocks of resolutely flat,
intensely saturated color to produce reactions___
in which radiance and vibrancy are internally generated.
…his work lights up the gallery like a beacon.”
As an artist, I have a myriad of thoughts, impressions,
approaches, that constantly percolate to the surface of my mind.
I try to focus these ideas on canvas as an interplay of
color
and light and space. These paintings I call Collimations.
Collimation is a term in optics. A telescope has a part called
a Collimator, to organize light into parallel lines which can
then be focused by the lenses and allow us to see
what is out of reach. It occurred to me that that also described
my creative process — organizing what I think and feel,
however random, into pure imagery.
The Collimations are a 180-degree departure from my earlier work.