Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento, CA

Cotton batting and paper
95” x 24” x 70 1/2”

Composed of fifteen square sheets of cloth-like paper, Dissipation relies on friction to hold its hundreds of torn cotton fragments to the surface. The artist reclaimed the cotton batting from a Brooklyn manufacturer of shoulder pads. Throughout her practice, Hill gives new life to discarded materials. Nodding to the sculpture of Eva Hesse and the legacies of post-minimalism, she explores the tension between pliable materials and structured grids, privileging process and improvisation over a predetermined form. Dissipation is a tantalizing synesthesia of sight and touch, inviting viewers to imagine the feeling of its soft surface.

Cotton batting and paper
95” x 24” x 70 1/2”