Eddie Hall and Sheldon Krevit
Eddie Hall and Sheldon Krevit October 10 – November 10, 2024
Kehler Liddell Gallery is pleased to present Eddie Hall - Overtones and Sheldon Krevit Bold as Love Selections from the 1970s to the present.
Overtones is an exhibition of over twenty works by Eddie Hall, created over the last three years while working with reclaimed windows as an experimentation of glass painting techniques. Hall’s work combines the rigid uniformity of hard-edge painting with themes of architectural abstraction and design. The result exhibits bold colors that delve into the interplay between matte painted surfaces and glass. From Eddie Hall: “If you start looking, you would be surprised how many windows you find discarded by the side of the road. I keep finding myself coming back again and again to the visuals I can achieve with acrylic paints on old windows. Using this medium, I find that I can readily present bold colors and geometric patterns. I find true enjoyment in the process and challenge of working the unique character of each window into the piece itself. These works have allowed me to take something discarded and hopefully transform them into items of beauty.” In Bold as Love, Mr. Krevit will be showing a variety of work, some of which date back to his days as a student, in Philadelphia. Also on display will be a large diptych, One Thing Leads To Another, completed in 2013, and Here It Is, a four by sixteen foot polyptych, on four, four by four foot birch panels, painted in 2007 in his Santa Fe studio, which will be exhibited for the first time. Evident throughout Krevit’s work is a love of painting and an ongoing involvement with the nature of perception. He delights in essence, in the continuum of the microscopic to the cosmic. From Sheldon Krevit: “The work lets me know what it requires of me, and I’m obliged to accommodate it.” Biographies Eddie Hall is an abstract artist in Berlin, Connecticut creating works using recycled windows which exhibit vibrant colors and geometric patterns. These works draw inspiration from architectural and design themes. Hall is self taught as an artist, an active member of the Kehler Liddell Gallery and has been featured and won awards in solo and group shows, including at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Mattatuck Museum, Hill-Stead Museum, Mystic Museum of Art, Edward Hopper House & Museum, Slater Memorial Museum, Scope Miami, Attleboro Museum, Hygienic Arts, Greenwich Arts Society, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, Cambridge Arts Association, and Ursa Gallery. He is a recipient of the Artist Respond grant from the Connecticut Office of the Arts and his work is in numerous private collections and currently on display at the Connecticut State Capitol Building. www.eddiehallart.com Instagram: @eddiehallart Sheldon Krevit has had a long and distinguished career. Mr. Krevit is a native of New Haven, CT, a graduate of The Philadelphia College of Art (UArts) and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he graduated with distinction and was awarded the E.V. Ashton Prize for painting. His work has been included in curated exhibitions with Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, William Bailey, and Barkley L. Hendricks. Mr. Krevit’s work is represented in public, private, and corporate collections. www.sheldonkrevit.com Sheldon Krevit gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven and The MFund.