Chase Hall “The Bathers”

David Kordansky Gallery

[Image: Chase Hall "Between The Face and The Lip" (2023) acrylic and coffee on cotton canvas, 108 x 61 x 1 1/4 in. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle]

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David Kordansky Gallery presents The Bathers, an exhibition of new paintings by Chase Hall.

The Bathers continues Hall’s ongoing investigation into the complex histories of coastal regions and the ocean’s depth, featuring a new body of work that addresses access and limitations to nature, leisure, public space, and Black adventurism. Hall works with a mixture of acrylic paint and brewed coffee on cotton canvas to render portraits of figures living amongst animals, playing sports, and congregating in sharply focused aquatic scenes. Using the expanse of the canvas—and drawing on his personal experiences of moving between states such as Minnesota, Illinois, Nevada, Colorado, California, and New York, where he would locate water in and around these regions—Hall complicates traditional understandings of race, class, mixedness, and geography within historically charged social landscapes with painterly rigor.