Chase Hall: The Close of Day

This landmark publication, the artist's first monograph, features prolific imagery documenting the exhibition paired with accompanying texts that add critical insight on the cultural significance of Hall’s work.

Chase Hall is celebrated for figurative works that interrogate the socioeconomic and cultural realities of America through innovative painting techniques and iconography that engages the past and the present. This book was published in collaboration with SCAD University Press on the occasion of the artist’s first institutional exhibition, Chase Hall: The Close of Day, at the SCAD Museum of Art, February 28–August 21, 2023, curated by Daniel S. Palmer. In Chase Hall: The Close of Day, the artist's first institutional exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Hall united new paintings, and an evocative installation featuring a century-old, self-playing Wurlitzer organ. The exhibition incisively addressed a range of issues, from the complexities of race and labor to the weighty histories of coffee, cotton, and other commodities, as well as personal meditations on his own place in society and history.

The book features an astute essay delving into the artist's process and position within the art historical canon, by Daniel S. Palmer, chief curator of the SCAD Museum of Art, and an in-depth conversation between Hall and independent curator Larry Ossei-Mensah.

Author(s):Chase Hall, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Daniel S.Palmer, Paula Wallace

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Paperback, SCAD, 2023
96 p,  8.25 × 10.5 in.