Stev'nn Hall

Stev’nn Hall grew up in rural Ontario juggling with a 35mm camera in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. He studied film, painting, and photography at Concordia University in Montreal and continues to draw influences from these disciplines.

After working as the director of a non-profit film co-op, as well as a director of indie music videos and as an international award-winning television promo producer, Stev’nn Hall returns to his roots with Skylight, a photography and mixed media landscape series.

Exploring and blurring the boundaries between painting and photography, the artist takes us on a back-seat tour recalling his past, romanced by his creative imagination. The transformation of the image is an operation of coloring, scraping and embellishing it with brush strokes and raw color, creating a new world that seems to be forming before our eyes. The images and the magic within them are both ravaging and ravaged. The series was conceived during Stev’nn Hall's frequent travels to his hometown to take care of his parents sick with cancer, and to finally to bury them; this episode marks his work with an emblematic sorrow. The light falling on this bruised land is beautiful but also sweet and sour. Life, love, and mourning are intertwined here.

His work can be found in the public spaces of the Residences of the Ritz Carlton in downtown Toronto and in the lobby of the Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls. Stev’nn Hall is represented by Galerie LeRoyer since 2012.

Submitted by Galerie LeRoyer