Diorama of a Sunrise Setting
Through formal and material abstractions, Hill presents a scene with its toes confidently grounded on the edge of a cliff. Using drawing as point of origin to create multidimensional works that play with material identity, visual perception, and speculative utility, he hones a queer logic of assemblage to anthropomorphize various devices, infrastructures, and iconography.
Like any proper diorama, this exhibition depicts landscape, the human figure, animality, and implements, all blurred through a literal giant lens. A sunrise setting is not only a refusive action, but a time and place that is frozen in the infinite blue, orange and pink of a shifting horizon line.
About the Artist:
Zach Hill is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator working between sculpture, drawing, and moving image. He has been awarded the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, two Illuminate the Arts Grants, and a Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award along with a full fellowship to Vermont Studio Center and has attended other residencies such as Bunker Projects, Elsewhere Museum, and Stove Works. His work has been exhibited at The Haggerty Museum of Art, Flux Factory on Governors Island, The Luminary, Co-Prosperity, Peep Projects, Grizzly Grizzly, All Street Gallery, and VisArts among other spaces. He has also created nightlife visuals for various queer parties such as Sonidero, Virtues, and LYLAS and has completed multiple sculptural commissions for Honcho Campout.
Hill holds a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College, teaching sculpture and drawing.
Zach Hill is currently based in Philadelphia, PA.
https://zach-hill.com/