Chelsea, New York
Gordon Hall
Never Odd or Even
Foxy ProductionNEVER ODD OR EVEN, Gordon Hall’s inaugural solo exhibition in New York, applies an unconventional logic to the language of abstraction. Hall’s palindromic title underscores the artist’s interest in precision and subtle difference, in the ambiguity that can lie between or within objects. The exhibition highlights relations between bodies and objects both in terms of the artist’s use of their body in producing the work, and of the perceptions of the viewer within the space: how objects conjure spatial relations, embedded memories, color perceptions, or potential actions. NEVER ODD OR EVEN comprises constructed and found floor-based objects, and interventions within the gallery space. It includes painted wood floor pieces placed in opposite entrance areas of the gallery; a small wood stool, found by the artist, place with a slightly differing replica of it; two mosaic stools with mirrored undersides sitting opposite one another; two identical flat arrangements of shapes made respectively of pigmented spackle and hand-dyed cotton (that are miniature versions of another work concurrently on view three blocks away); a section of stairs with an oblique side covered in a white mosaic; a triangle of folded, dyed canvas on a low, customized plinth; small sections of the gallery walls painted in pastel off-white; a pair of clear cast replicas of Shaker-style pegs, and a repair job of never-dry modeling clay pushed into the back corner of a column. Gordon Hall holds both an MA in Visual and Critical Studies and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibitions include: Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum (forthcoming); FLEX, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY, with performance (forthcoming); MIDDLE DOUBLE, Night Club, Chicago (solo); and No Fate But What We Make, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN (all 2014.) Hall is the Director of the Center for Experimental Lectures, a lecture-performance series that has been hosted by MoMA PS1; Recess; The Shandaken Project; Alderman Exhibitions; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, producing a series of lectures and seminars in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial.