Patrick Hall Made of Broken Pieces
e’s known for intricately detailed sculptures and furniture, but Patrick Hall’s recent work, , 2020, features crudely-sketched beasties with beady eyes, toothy mouths and fabulous eyelashes. Hall calls it an “exercise in trying to get me to draw more freely.” He hasn’t completely let go. Countering the free drawing and folds of backlit fabric – in Hall’s words, the “unexplained underneath” – is a strict grid of transparency mounts and and fine-lined diagram overlay – an aesthetic common to many of his
