ScottFHallSculpture020

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These pieces comprise a unified body of work that art and design professor Scott F. Hall has been creating from 1989 to present, driven by his passion for sculpture and design. Hall pioneered this style initially by developing expansive, intertwined spans of figures within drawings that reached widths of up to 3.5 meters. The drawn figures emerged through a spontaneous process of additive and subtractive mark making that induced pareidolia (visions conjured from the amorphous field). Once noticed in the field, each figure could be refined upon to more fully bring it into view. As an undergraduate sculpture major at that time, Hall soon began creating equivalent 3-D imagery focused on a single clay-modeled figure presented in a particular pose, usually in half-bodied form (depicted only from the pelvis upward). Throughout this three-decade-long series, Hall's sculptures showcase figures in solitary and bound conditions. This depiction directly refers to Existentialist philosophy, which was of focal interest to him during the late '80s amidst Postmodern disillusionment. Although Hall's philosophical outlook has moved beyond Existentialism and Postmodernism, the stark and quietly tortured look of his figures persists for consistency. Every sculpture in this series remains untitled, aligning with the surrogate nature of Hall's figures. Each Hall sculpture begins as a small-scale white oil-based clay model, ranging from 12 to 20 centimeters in height. Hall models each figure entirely with his fingers, while composition of poses (i.e., observing persons set into poses) occurs only during study phases prior to actual sculpting. Ultimately, he sculpts each figure quickly and from memory, resulting in high realism but an impressionist sense: each viewer is led to interpret each Hall sculpture for themselves. Following the act of sculpting, each clay figure is turntable-scanned, cleaned of stray pixels, and converted to an STL file. If some artifacts of digital processing persist (i.e., small areas of faceting), Hall tends to accept these as markers of process. Several of Hall's earliest pieces were molded in silicone and cast in wax, plaster, or resin. The first piece in this series exists as a one-of-a-kind lost wax bronze, remaining in the artist's collection. Contact email: Scott.Hall@ucf.edu Biography: https://svad.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/?id=92