Michael Wayne HallMichael Wayne Hall approaches painting as a meditative and deeply intentional practice. Working entirely by hand, he mixes and remixes each color individually, applying pigment without the use of tape or masking. Wobbles, smudges, and subtle imperfections are left intact—deliberate traces of the artist’s hand that underscore the humanity within each precise composition.His abstract works draw on the flat color fields and hard-edged aesthetics of vintage screenprints, infused with his own quietly luminous gradients that suggest movement, depth, and transition. The result is work that feels both contemporary and timeless—at once calming and kinetic.Michael studied film at the University of the Arts and learned screenprinting at Philadelphia’s artist-run collective, Space 1026. He is a self-taught painter, muralist, and woodworker whose work has been commissioned by clients including the Kosovo Mural Fest, Facebook, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Perkins&Will, TIAA, Nordstrom, BP, and the City of Smithville, Texas, among many others. His paintings are held in private collections and have been exhibited in Rome, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Marfa, Austin, and across the U.S.Beyond painting, Michael has long been engaged in experimental and underground art forms. He co-founded the nomadic Lost Film Fest in 1999, toured as one half of the sound and print duo Ospreys, and has published stories about two decades of freight train travel for Faded Glory and the French book Outside the Box, which documents North American boxcar art.