Reverse images on recycled windows.
Eddie Hall is an abstract artist in Berlin, Connecticut creating works using recycled windows which exhibit vibrant colors and geometric patterns. These works largely draw inspiration from architectural and design themes. Hall is self taught as an artist, an active member of the Kehler Liddell Gallery, and his works have been featured and won awards in shows far and wide, 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.
Artist Biography
Half the time, I am a full time father of two amazing children. The only time I have been challenged to a fight, I was dressed as the Skipper from Gilligan’s Island. I am an attorney with over a decade of experience in regulatory compliance. My grandmother lives under an assumed name and for a short time she painted claiming it was all at the direction of a Spanish ghost. I was born in Ohio and have lived in Florida, Los Angeles and Connecticut. At age ten I was regularly filling out people’s tax paperwork and at age thirteen I would do computer consulting posing as a college student. I did not start painting until about five years ago. The one time I have been married, it was to someone I was not dating at the time. I have a cat named Daisy. I am not a baseball fan, but have appeared in the nationally televised broadcast of the final game of a World Series. I graduated college when I was nineteen. I went to high school in a Florida town which was founded by and still very much occupied by circus sideshow performers. I am admitted to the bar in two states, am certified to conduct insurance company examinations, and have a degree in Criminology. I spent seven years working at a record label where I accidentally found four unreleased John Fahey songs and once wrote a fake autobiography that was distributed to thousands in an employee newsletter. I am self-taught as an artist, never picking up a brush until I was almost forty and I will be forever grateful that I found the medium of expression that had always been missing from my life.
From the Artist
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 the reverse side of recycled windows. Using this medium, I find that I can more readily present the bold colors and geometric patterns I feature in my work and find enjoyment in the challenge of working the unique character of each window into the piece itself. These works have allowed me to take something discarded and transform them into an item of beauty.
Media
TV Interview on Fox 61 (watch the interview)
New Haven Independent article on Overtones
Cambridge Day article on Emerging Artists Exhibit
Featured on Fox 61 Connecticut Creatives.
On WTNH for International Artist Day.
Transparency in the Berlin Citizen.
Article on New Member Spotlight at Kehler Liddell
Article Unloved to Fantastic by Klekolo World Coffee.
Video of Open and Shut solo show.
Open and Shut articles in the New Britain Herald and Berlin Citizen.
Almost Famous Brewery show mentioned on WFSB. (1:45 in)
Art of Recovery show on WFSB.
High Voltage Project - New Britain, CT
