1 minute read
Michael Forster 22
MICHAEL FORSTER HIBISCUS (7-1988) ACRYLIC ON CANvAS, 35.5" x 47"
MICHAEL FORSTER CELESTIAL GREEN ACRYLIC ON CANvAS, 36" x 42"
Advertisement
JOHN HALL
John Hall was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1943. After studying at the Alberta College of Art from 1960 to 1965, he moved to Mexico where he continued his learning at the Instituto Allende, from 1965-66. Hall has held teaching positions in art at Ohio Wesleyan University, the Alberta College of Art and Design, the University of Calgary, and the Okanagan University. Notable among Hall’s long list of exhibitions was the 1979-80 solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada and a major retrospective exhibition at Mexico City's Museo de Arte Moderno in 1994. In 2016 the Kelowna Art Gallery opened "Travelling Light - a forty-five year survey of paintings". In 2017, The exhibition traveled to the Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary.
The artist rose to national prominence during the 1970s with his large hyper-realist still life paintings of common objects. Today, Hall continues to focus on recording the appearance of familiar objects, materials, surface and colour. Likened to an urban archaeologist, he produces paintings that mine the rich complexity of contemporary urban life. Hall is represented in many important public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Art Gallery of Alberta.
