November 4, 2024—December 14, 2024 | Reception, Saturday, November 9th, 4-6PM

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition with New York artist Ronald Hall. The artist combines fiction and nonfiction in his narrative paintings, crafting otherworldly spaces where figures contemplate and navigate the complexities of the past, present, and future. Hall’s creative process is greatly influenced by Surrealism; reverberating its historical practices of creating an atmosphere where everything can be called into question. It allows Hall to challenge our buried histories and bring to fore the truths of the Black experience. The subject of his paintings often draws from actual events as well as from his personal experiences growing up in the 1970-80s in the challenging environments of Pittsburgh. Hall’s portraits and narrative compositions investigate ideas of race and class to reevaluate American history through the lens of the Black diaspora.

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