Kate Mosher Hall

Kate Mosher Hall’s paintings aim to “create space” and cultivate a special kind of “openendedness.” Often combining figurative and obfuscated elements, her images hint at narrative structure, only to stymie pat interpretation and closed meaning. Hall’s works oscillate between frank acknowledgement of her materials—flat planes, paint, printing screens—and a seductive illusionism that draws on illustration and found images. At times the works emphasize duality and fragmentation, and at others they underscore the merger of forms and ambiguity. In playing with such structures, Hall not only seeks visual stimulus but also intrigue and psychological affect. Indeterminacy and enigma, as she puts it, allow for visual complexities that are “allegories to life experiences and broken conditions that I ultimately celebrate.”

Kate Mosher Hall lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from UCLA. Recent solo exhibitions include Offset at Tanya Leighton, 2021; Without a body, without Bill at Hannah Hoffman Gallery, 2021; LOQK, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, 2019; and Wind Breaker, Phil Gallery, Los Angeles, 2019.