A self-taught artist with boundless energy and a lot to say, Chase Hall has emerged virtually overnight as a strong and highly original new voice.
Three years ago, when Chase Hall was 25 and doing a residency at Skowhegan in Maine, he had a revelation about his art. “One of the teachers there, the artist Sondra Perry, and I had been having deep conversations every day,” he tells me, “and near the end of my time, she said, ‘You love Black history, but your mom is white. Where is that in the work?’ It kind of ruined me, but it also made me.”
In the work he has done since then, Hall has more than fulfilled that ambition. A self-taught artist with boundless energy and a lot to say, he has emerged virtually overnight as a strong and highly original new voice. “Even though he is not ‘trained,’ Chase has an eye that’s been deeply cared for and influenced by the great painters in history,” Horace D. Ballard, associate curator of American Art at Harvard’s Fogg Museum, tells me.
Hall’s deftly brushed, gestural paintings, which are mostly portraits, show people engaged in various activities—fishing, surfing, working, playing the saxophone, singing in a choir. “I’m speaking vicariously through my own experience,” he says.shows a teenage boy in a dark suit, standing forlornly outside a house. “It’s about that feeling of waiting for someone to come that’s never there,” Hall says.
Hall was born in 1993 in St. Paul, Minnesota. “My mom was always a single parent,” he says. “She was never married.” His father was around for the first year or so and after that, less and less. Hall has two brothers, one older and one younger, but the main figure in his life has always been his mother. “Me and my mom are still best friends,” he tells me.
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