God is you
2022
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint, coffee and badges on canvas
- Measurements
- (a-b) 182.2 × 280.9 cm (overall)
- Place/s of Execution
- New York, New York, United States
- Inscription
- (a) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.: CH (monogram) / 2022 / (…illeg.)
(b) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.: (… illeg.) (music notes) CH (monogram) 2022 - Accession Number
- 2023.1.a-b
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Andrew Xue, 2023
© Chase Hall - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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In his paintings and sculptures, Chase Hall uses innovative materials and techniques to highlight racial inequalities that are part of America’s past and present. Hall is recognised for his unique visual language and use of coffee as a pigment on unprimed cotton canvases – both materials that are intrinsically connected to the history of transatlantic trade. Based on an archival photograph, this diptych captures a congregation at a Baptist conference. The work exemplifies the way Hall achieves tonal and textual variation through different levels of coarseness of the coffee pigment, which is contrasted against purposefully exposed sections of raw canvas.
