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Meet Artist The25TH

Darrius “Artist” Hall (Nashville, Tn.) is an multidisciplinary visual artist, educator, photographer, activist, and organizer. Artist creates abstract and figurative works with a raw, yet powerful, hopeful, and honest intensity inspired by the real-life experiences of his youth. With an upbringing rife with the challenging, harsh realities of an early hard-knock life spent living and surviving in America, his influences are a culmination of a varied existence.

Art, music, branding, as well as other tenets of popular culture, continues to play a specific role in the formation of his panoramic perspective. Artist’s work addresses themes that live at the intersection of socio-economic identity, geopolitics, and modern-day activism, which renders him a fierce champion of independent thought. As a creator, the depth of his connection to contemporary culture is innate. He is

committed to discovering new ways of unmasking and identifying societal ills, establishing him as a quintessential social expressionist of the human condition. Artist takes a process-oriented approach to his art, embracing it as a therapeutic modality through which he is able to express his passion for the freedom and independence that the creative process allows him to experience. His art is his personal therapy, and his desire is that those viewing it will have personal experiences of catharsis. The philosophy that undergirds Artist’s work is FREEDOM THROUGH ART and he aspires to create work that communicates to his audience their unique and intrinsic ability to be free.