Critical Voices—Gary Hill: Cutting Corners Creates More Sides

Since the early 1970s, Gary Hill has worked with a broad range of media including sculpture, sound, video, installation and performance, producing a large body of single-channel videos, mixed-media installations and performances. His work continues to explore an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia, and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity. Exhibitions of his work have been presented at museums and institutions worldwide, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. In 1998 Hill was awarded the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” During a recent residency at the Pilchuck Glass School, Hill created a series of works incorporating language, glass and video including the recent acquisition by the Portland Art Museum, Klein Bottle with the Image of Its Own Making (after Robert Morris).

Critical Voices is an ongoing lecture and discussion series dedicated to the spirit of one of America’s most noted 20th century art critics, Clement Greenberg. Critical Voices brings nationally and internationally recognized artists, curators, historians, critics, and theorists to Portland to engage our community in lively conversations on the nature of contemporary art practices and the role of artists and art in contemporary life.

The Critical Voices series is sponsored in part by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

Members free; non-members $15, seniors and students $12. Advance ticket purchase highly recommended.