Joan Hall

JANUARY 17 - MARCH 29, 2019
Hall is known for her innovative approaches to material and process. A longtime sailor, the experience of voyaging on the sea is integrated personally into an aesthetic for which environmental research and activism are co-expressions. Her art is the visual result that addresses the crisis of today, one of complacency to changing climates in the world.

Hall says of her work: “The Gulf Project is the result of two trips to the Gulf of Mexico. In June of 2011 I drove a ‘mobile studio’ set up in an RV to the Gulf Coast to document plastic pollution in the ocean. I worked by the shore in Johnson's Bayou and Grand Isle, Louisiana. Grand Isle had just reopened its campgrounds after the BP oil spill. I returned a year later to continue the documentation. The work in this exhibition contains plastic collected and recorded during the project.”