Sol Hill

Sol Hill’s camera-based artwork is a form of technological mysticism, capturing images from the world, but showing us an alternate vision, full of errant visual incidents and covert meanings. The artist allows both reality and his intuitive intentions to reveal themselves with an unexpected poignancy. His process is both technological and poetic, showing the limits of the visible and the possibilities of seeing beyond it.

Hill refers to his digitally captured photographs as “Metagraphs” because he employs digital sensors to record energies both visible and invisible to the human eye. He permits a variety of digital noise – extraneous energy in the form of electromagnetic energies, heat, and cosmic rays – to affect the image. Purist traditionalists might consider this technique a “false exposure”. However,
the process he employs alters recognizable forms, producing a kind of meta-vision and revealing aspects of reality that we do not normally see. In this way he expands his vision and gives the viewer a look into a vast mysterious zone beyond our limited perception. These complex but meditative images, connected by components of science and spirituality are immersed in a palpable sense of time, absorbing viewers in a rewarding e...

Brooks Institute
MFA

Lewis & Clark College
BA - International Affairs, German Studies (double major)

Solo exhibitions
2022
State Of The Union, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Signal From Noise, Irving Art Center, Dallas, TX
2020
Urban Canyons, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2019
Metagraphs: Finding Signal from Noise, The Museum Of Arts & Science, Macon, GA
Inner Sublime, The Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, AL
All Great Art Is Art About Art, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Mysteries, Synergy Capital, Montecito, CA
2018
Metagraphs: The Best Art Ever! & All Great Art Is Art About Art - New York Art Expo, New York, NY
Metagraphs: All Great Art Is Art About Art - Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2017
Metagraphs - Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2016
Signal from Noise - Anacostia Art Center - Washington DC
Urban Noise - Artist Corner Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
Liquid Noise - Alchemy - Santa Barbara, CA
2014
Suspicious Privacy - Wynwood Warehouse Art Project (pilot) - Wynwood, Miami, Fl
2013
Token Feminine, Calumet Gallery - Hollywood, Los Angeles CA
2012
Token Feminine, Tool Room Gallery - Ventura CA
2011
Everything is Prelude: Solo Exhibition & Collaboration with Dance Theater Production, Theater D, Santa Ynez, CA

Select Group exhibitions
2013
Words on the Printed Page • Gallery 825 • Los Angeles, CA
Art without Limits - Com...