James Harris Gallery | "Face Time: Joey Brock, Gary Hill and Mickalene Thomas"

"Face Time: Joey Brock, Gary Hill and Mickalene Thomas"

November 4, 2025—December 19, 2025 | Reception Saturday, November 15th, 4-6PM

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present “Face Time” a group exhibition including work by Joey Brock, Gary Hill and Michelene Thomas. This show focuses on images that illustrate the personal language of the subject through subtle nuance of gesture and emotive facial expression. The works in the show capture moments that offer insight into intimate human interactions and the inner psyche. The psychology of the human experience and identity, where expressions depict the character of the subject. The artists in this show demonstrate empathy and familiarity for these figures, by either assuming the role as passive witness or taking an active role as collaborator. Perhaps they discover their own reflection through their subjects and in this way, these works highlight a collective human experience that we can all relate to and locate within ourselves.

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Gary Hill is a pioneering artist of new media and video work. His video works incorporate commentaries on society and culture as well as bringing in poetic themes and ideas. Hill considers video as a medium to be the most receptive, flexible, and far-reaching mirror of consciousness. He creates psychological spaces within his artworks that allow viewers to see this mirror of their own consciousness.

Gary Hill lives and works in Seattle, WA. Exhibitions of his work have been presented at museums and institutions worldwide, including solo exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, among others. Commissioned projects include works for the Science Museum in London and the Seattle Central Public Library in Seattle, Washington, and an installation and performance work for the Coliseum and Temple of Venus and Rome in Italy. Hill has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale (1995), a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award (1998), the Kurt-Schwitters-Preis (2000), and honorary doctorates from The Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland (2005) and Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA (2011).