Tag: David Hillard

David Hilliard’s work is rooted in the deeply personal, elevating the everyday to the sublime through formal and conceptual techniques borrowed from theater, film and other modes of storytelling. Presented as large-scale, multi-paneled photographs, the works in his new exhibition, Just So, at Yancey Richardson explore complex, universal narratives through the examination of the artist’s own relationships with family, friends, muses, lovers and strangers alike. Each portrait comprises a number of images employing different focal points, converging multiple perspectives into a single scene, and in turn, multiple variations of reality. Hilliard takes the personal and familiar and manipulates them to provide a commentary on larger issues such as masculinity, aging, sexuality, and spirituality, striking a balance between autobiography and fiction.