13 March 2013

HEAL Utah March Gallery Stroll

March Gallery Stroll
Robert Hall Photography
and UAEC Anniversary!

Spring is in the air and HEAL Utah is very excited to invite you to join them to celebrate the return of warm weather, the end of the legislative session (yes!), and some beautiful art!

Please join HEAL Utah this Friday, to view the stunning photography of Robert Hall as part of the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll.

It's also the Utah Art and Environment Collaborative's One Year Anniversary, so join HEAL to celebrate one year of art and activism! (You can read more about Utah Art and Environment Collaborative's founding here.)

Local food trucks, Lewis Brothers and Bento Truck, will be at the scene, so bring your appetite for fine local food as well as for fine local art.

March Gallery Stroll
"Preservation of the West: Spaces in Utah Affected by Man"
Friday, March 15 ~ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
824 S 400 W, Suite B113
    (ground-level of Artspace Commons, 400 West street-side)

Robert has generously offered to donate 50% of each purchase back to HEAL & UAEC, so if you find something you like, you can do good for them, as well as for your walls!

More about the show:
"Preservation of the West: Spaces in Utah Affected by Man"

Robert Hall, a Utah native and 4th generation photographer, has been passionate about photography for more than forty years. His work has won awards in the United States and internationally and has been shown in many museums and galleries. His professional work includes fine art photography, professional portraiture, figure studies, and commercial imaging. He is also highly respected and recommended for his darkroom techniques and collaborates with other professional photographers throughout the US and Europe to help them realize their vision using advanced photographic methods.

Robert’s true love and major focus is large format photography. He uses 8 x 10 and 12 x 20 view cameras that create a negative of that size. He then contact prints the negatives by hand using platinum, palladium, silver, and gold. These are archival procedures that may outlast even the landscapes they honor.

Photography has been used to capture and hold images for information and for documentation, but in Robert’s photographs, the image is reflective of a mood. Robert photographs “not to record or document, but rather to capture and hold, just for a moment, the essence of something greater that exists just beyond our view.” His work focuses on connecting forms, lines, and space to create a perspective beyond what is seen in a glance.

Much of Robert’s work presents solitary icons that reflect the American West. No where else in the world has isolation been heralded as such a symbol of strength. American heroes almost always act alone: Daniel Boone; Davy Crocket; Ernest Hemingway. James Michener wrote, “…Americans became the loneliest people on the face of the earth, but there were compensations. Living alone meant that men had to be more ingenious, which led to inventiveness. Old patterns had to be surrendered, so revolutionary new ones could be more easily accepted.”

As with any piece of art, Robert believes the meaning within his work is created by the viewer: “we sense beauty in a very personal way; our reactions to the outside world are governed by our internal sense of self. Art helps us see with new eyes what we knew was there but did not recognize.”


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