The Elementals

From Camiba Gallery:

“Announcing The Elementals, our next exhibit of artworks by Lee Albert Hill on view from November 10th through December 10th. We will host an Artist Talk on Saturday November 19th from 6:00 to 7:00pm with an Artist Reception immediately following until 8:30pm.

The Elementals reflects the essential human spirit of mark making in response to the invisible forces that inherently exist between the four natural elements: earth, water, air, and fire. The major works in the exhibition The Elementals address either creation/destruction or the idea of two simultaneous states of being. The Hopewell Survey is a painting made in response to the cycles of creation and destruction across the American landscape which eventually resulted in the formation of a modern USA. We Americans are both master and victim of this history which has long been reflected in our distinct and divisive politics. Gravity Well is about the forces of space time and the theory of relativity, each ripe with thoughts on how things can exist in two different states at the same time. Zero Degrees at Top Dead
Center x 3 is a depiction of the position needed to set the timing of an internal combustion engine. Without the proper simultaneous flow of time and energy, the engine does not function.

In the artist’s own words:

We humans may have created elemental beings to help explain natural patterns where none seem to exist and to make a complicated and random world easier to accept. In that sense I do hope that viewers walk away from the exhibit The Elementals with a curiosity about the richness of history and our brief time here on the earth and in the cosmos. To quote the astronomer Carl Sagan, “We’re all made of star stuff!” In other words, the basic elements are us.  We are the elementals.

About the Artist:
Lee Albert Hill is a Texas-based painter, architect and writer who has worked from his studio in Fort Worth for more than twenty-five years.  Born in Dallas, he holds a five-year professional degree in Architecture from the Texas Tech University College of
Architecture.  Working in traditional methods of acrylic on canvas, Hill’s paintings focus on flat geometric patterns in combination with his signature approach of hard-edges, wide brush action-painting and edge to edge compositions. Upon closer look, a sense of storytelling through symbology is revealed imparting a quality of inscribed time. His work is held in many private and corporate collections, including American Airlines, Riverside Resources Investments, NYC-based Loews Hotels, The Marriott Corporation, Dublin Ireland’s TIFCO Hotel Group, and SAMTX Investments.”