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Harkawik is pleased to present Internal Weather, Eli Hill’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Rooted in both self-portraiture and landscape painting, the exhibition brings together new paintings that continue Hill’s investigation of bodies moving through unstable environments. His figures possess weight and presence while the spaces surrounding them dissolve: bathroom walls pulse with heat, racetracks tilt skyward, water glows with unnatural luminosity. Against this volatile terrain, the body becomes a temporary point of orientation.
Many of Hill’s figures turn away from the viewer, caught mid-rotation or absorbed in their own internal orbit—resisting the expectation that identity or narrative be immediately legible. Across the work, Hill expands his portrayal of masculinity and intimacy, presenting figures that are tender, romantic, yearning, isolated, and occasionally grotesque. Masculinity appears not as a fixed condition but as something continuously performed, projected and…
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Press Release
Harkawik is pleased to present Internal Weather, Eli Hill’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Rooted in both self-portraiture and landscape painting, the exhibition brings together new paintings that continue Hill’s investigation of bodies moving through unstable environments. His figures possess weight and presence while the spaces surrounding them dissolve: bathroom walls pulse with heat, racetracks tilt skyward, water glows with unnatural luminosity. Against this volatile terrain, the body becomes a temporary point of orientation.
Many of Hill’s figures turn away from the viewer, caught mid-rotation or absorbed in their own internal orbit—resisting the expectation that identity or narrative be immediately legible. Across the work, Hill expands his portrayal of masculinity and intimacy, presenting figures that are tender, romantic, yearning, isolated, and occasionally grotesque. Masculinity appears not as a fixed condition but as something continuously performed, projected and…






























































