that these images read as collage or even suggest quilt-making.  What this implies is a conceptual take in that these photographs deny the medium with their focus on abstract textures and color even as they celebrate it through composition.  This contradictory aspect goes right to the core of the content for this work.

Magali Nougarede at Rosenberg + Kaufman

This collection of installations represents a study in textures, found objects, recycling and conceptual approach; all of which has long constituted Robin Hill�s art. The most interesting aspect to this exhibition is the rich variety of textures and materials Hill presents. One of the major pieces features 100 disks in which each contains embedded balls of wax.  In total it is a magnificent work in terms of its physicality whether up close or seen from farther back.  However, beyond the sensual aspect is the obsessive side of this piece.  This is established by the number of disks and how they�ve been treated; which would have been enough.  But Hill goes one better and made casts of all the disks,

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Magali Nougarede at Rosenberg + Kaufman

Robin Hill at Lennon, Weinberg

arranged them on end and then placed them on the gallery floor to form a long horizontal column.  Same disks with the same forms - but different materials with a different installation. Both pieces, indeed nearly all of Hill�s work, are open to a

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