Sol Hill
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Chromatic Resonance 3, ed. 1/3
metagraph: digital artifacts, pigment print on japanese paper, acrylic, encaustic, panel, 36 x 24 inches, $2800
Rendering Witness 1, ed. 1/1
metagraph: digital artifacts, pigment print on japanese paper, acrylic, encaustic, mounted on unstretched canvas, 84 x 65 inches, $12000
Twilight Garden (MOMA)
metagraph: photographic digital artifacts, pigment ink, japanese paper, acrylic, mounted on canvas, 86 x 48 inches, $6000
Gate Keeper (Brooklyn Bridge)
metagraph: photographic digital artifacts, pigment ink, japanese paper, acrylic, on canvas, 56 x 40 inches, $4200
Convocation of Thought Shapes
metagraph: photographic digital artifacts, pigment ink, japanese paper, acrylic, encaustic on board, 24 x 36 inches, $2800
Structures of the mind
metagraph: photographic digital artifacts, pigment ink, japanese paper, acrylic, encaustic on board, 24 x 36 inches, $2800
Evergreen Illusion in the Mountains
metagraph pigment print on japanese paper mounted on panel, 24 x 18 inches, $1600
Cloudscape Illusion in the Desert
metagraph pigment print on japanese paper mounted on panel, 24 x 36 inches, $2400
Island Illusion in December
metagraph pigment print on japanese paper mounted on panel, 30 x 60 inches, $3800
Liquid Thunder in Big Sur, Ed. 1/6
mixed media metagraph, 24 x 36 inches, $2800
Faded Memory of the Fabric of Urban Life
mixed media metagraph, 36 x 45 inches, sold
What Lies Down That Road, Ed. 1/3
mixed media metagraph, 24 x 30 inches, $2600
On the subject of the female form..., Ed. 1/3
mixed media metagraph, 24 x 36 inches, $2800
How Does He Do That?, Ed 1/3
mixed media metagraph, 30 x 30 inches, $1200
About the artist...
Sol divides his artistic practice between working with contemporary digital imaging technology to create what he calls Metagraphs, and by using art as a form of activism through creating hard hitting social justice art projects.
Metagraphs are a mixed media hybrid that exploits a digital sensor’s sensitivity to energies other than light in order to record visible artifacts hinting at the energetic nature of the universe.
Sol became interested in working with digital imaging technology while doing his MFA in photographic arts. He noticed everyone involved in the world of photography despised “digital noise.” He thought it would be wonderful to do something so compelling with these endemic but reviled artifacts that people would have to enjoy them, mostly to prove the point that nothing is inherently worthless or ugly… it just depends on how you look at it and where you put value.
Sol prints his Metagraphs on Japanese paper and applies them to prepared painter’s substrates. He develops surface texture and gesture in acrylics to accentuate the ambiguity of the medium. His aim is to stimulate wonder – about the image, his process, his medium and their collective interpretation.
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