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In Jean Stafford’s short story, “The Interior Castle,” a young woman retreats into her “sacred brain” following a traumatic accident. She envisions the organ, “romantically, now as a jewel, now as a flower, now as a light in a glass, now as an envelope of rosy vellum containing other envelopes, one within the other, diminishing infinitely. It was always pink and always fragile, always deeply interior and invaluable.” Lacey Hall (b. 1992, Sewickley, PA) creates ink drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings referencing images from films, her everyday life, and found photos. Hall’s paintings unfold moments that are both romantic and surreal, expanding upon wistful, sublime, or multifaceted sensations. She depicts the yearning of the lamb in Horace Pippin’s Holy Mountain II, the strange and delicate practice of folding a towel into a swan shape, and the unsettling and satisfying feeling of swatting a fly. Her ongoing collection of imagery forms a visual language composed of symbols: shells, mirrors, clocks, dogs, tables, angels, and castles. This image bank plays out in her drawings and murals, forming the vivid dreamscape of her inner chamber of knowledge, and playing out in the vast network of the collective unconscious. Hall’s work has been exhibited in Pittsburgh, PA, Oakland, CA and Providence, RI. Her zine Rainbow Dream Room was published by Alright Press, and she has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and will begin her MFA at Purchase College, State University of New York in the fall. She lives and works in New York City. This is her first solo exhibition. |
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