Clinton Hill Installation |
Todd and Elizabeth, as preparators, organize this rotation to make
sure the process runs smoothly and efficiently. Preparators work alongside
curators and artists to create the best experience for museum visitors to see
the works of art, which find their way to the museum. They decide how to frame,
hang and label the works displayed in the museum.
Most recently, the museum’s director, William Eiland, organized an
exhibition of the work of Clinton Hill, an abstract artist working in the 20th century.
Rivers explained that Eiland charged him and Howe first to “transport the
viewer into an alternate reality” and then to help the viewer “understand the
purpose of abstraction without words.”
With these goals in mind, Rivers and Howe chose atypical methods
for presenting Hill’s work. They responded to the jagged and freeform nature of
Hill’s works by placing them in diagonal, tilted and even disjointed, lines.
The orange lining of an artist-made box for a work titled “Duo,” an accordion-style
book, inspired the complementary orange that accents the exhibition. Hill
experimented with various techniques in papermaking, so techniques like glowing
lightboxes and smooth wood tables highlight the three-dimensionality of Hill’s
work. By understanding Hill’s “paper constructions” and not just
two-dimensional paintings, this installation elevates the viewer to the realm
of abstraction as an invitation to explore color, shapes and form alongside
Clinton Hill.
Soon Todd and Elizabeth will box these works back up again. The
walls will be painted. The future repurposed. And a new exhibition will fill
the gallery. Before then, you do not want to miss the chance to see what
reality you might find in Clinton Hill’s work.
Clinton Hill is on view January 6 – March 18, 2018 in the Virginia
and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries.
McKenzie Peterson
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