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Lost, Love: Artist Statement
The Woodman Shimko Gallery features Love, Lost, a new collection by Nathan Brad Hall that reflects on moments when light, memory, and emotion intersect. Hall captures the fleeting space between shadow and illumination.
As artists, there are moments when the landscape shifts, and how we see the world— how we view ourselves—is fundamentally altered.
It can be the way a thin ray of light falls over a face, or how a body appears to descend into shadows while emerging into the light. It is these unexpected moments that can suddenly bring up emotion, stirring something deep and untethered. Sometimes it is memory, other times it is hope, and often still it is melancholy.
In Lost, Love, I strived to render these fleeting moments with a glimpse beyond the composition. Using both expressive and refined strokes, I explored the balance of energy and stillness that can make the figure come alive.
This interplay of the illusion of color with the illusion of light, drives me as an artist to capture it with the fluidity of paint. When two strokes of varying hues create depth and shape, it moves me to continue to add to this illusion. The physical world and the physical paint, juxtaposed against the inner world we carry with us.
Light Transcended: The Emotional Interplay of Light and Form Across Canvas & Print
In this artistic collaboration, photographer Brooke White and painter Nathan Brad Hall in a collaborative exploration of how light shapes emotion and perception. Through photography and painting, they reveal fleeting moments where shadow and illumination meet, creating a shared meditation on presence, transformation, and the search for meaning through light.
With Photographer Brooke White
How does an artist evoke the emotion that these words carry? And how do the different mediums of paint and photography each capture these fleeting thoughts while being firmly rooted in the present?
Photographer Brooke White and painter Nathan Brad Hall set out to find a common thread through their respective disciplines, using the commonality of light, space and environment to build a visual and emotional bridge across their individual work. At the heart of their collaboration is the desire to invoke and capture the mysteries that light can reveal, both physical and existential, and how the interplay of encroaching and receding shadows allow these brief moments and forms to exist. Light Transcended describes these fleeting moments, defined by light and time,that we carry with us.
Light Transcended’ consists of both small and large-scale works of photography and oil painting, with each artist bringing their own unique sensibilities and perspective to the challenge while being informed by the others discoveries and insights. All decisions related to the exhibition have been collaborative, allowing the show to grow into a reflection of not only the work, but the artists joint experience as well.