Nigel Hall
Nicholas Wilder Gallery
The sculptures of Nigel Hall at Nicholas Wilder Gallery are quietly assertive works whose contribution is unique in arousing strong kinesthetic sensations and unusual manipulation of very slight volumes. His recent works, of the dozen and a half produced during his year’s visit to Los Angeles, are made of industrially prefabricated aluminum units altered with and accompanied by shapes of fiberglass. Though in his working drawings the barest linear marks appear, the sculptures are not linear in the sense of “drawing in space,” for the parts are not simply connecting points or descriptions of