"Through the Forest of Our Endless Numbered Days" -- View Show -- Contact Sandra at 323.256.6117 or semastroianni70@yahoo.com to purchase an original

Cactus Gallery presents:
"Through the Forest of Our Endless Numbered Days"
New paintings about Life and Death by Walt Hall

Reception: Saturday, July 10th -- 7p-10p

This opening is in conjunction with NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night. This self-guided tour of the galleries, non-profits and artist run project spaces located in Northeast Los Angeles (NELA) has been going strong for over 4 years. We are dedicated to increase the visibility of the thriving arts community in the area.

Click here for a map: www.nelaart.com

Walt Hall will be in attendance as well as The Sweets Truck and The Grill Cheese Truck.

Music provided by Bumtech.

Exhibit on view through July 31, 2010.

ABOUT WALT HALL: This solo exhibition by artist Walt Hall is a continuation of the Los Angeles based artist's study of austere and melancholic forest-scapes created on discarded wood, foreign newsprints, old fashioned wallpaper and iconic advertising elements. Hall's work shows the viewer small scenes of life and death, happiness and sadness, love and loss. This body of new work is connected, like all of the artist's work, not by a story as such, but rather by a narrative thread based on an equation of emotion leading to reconciliation and balance. Walt Hall was born and raised in Northeast Los Angeles. Although an active artist from a very young age, he cut his creative teeth in the world of commercial art restoration rather than the traditional art school. Until 2000 his main focus was music and a series of local punk bands that he formed with friends. Since that time he has returned his creative focus to the visual arts.

I'm Happy We are at Home - SOLD


Then He Smiled - SOLD

She's Full of Secrets - AVAILABLE

But I'm Full of Secrets, Too - AVAILABLE

Interlude for a Procession - SOLD

Introduction to First Aid - AVAILABLE



Hurts No Matter What - AVAILABLE
Bird King, Bird King - AVAILABLE

Are Coming Closer and Closer - SOLD

8 Black Bird Ironing Board - SOLD


Fly Away - SOLD

Fun with Our Friends - SOLD

Forget Me Not - SOLD


Father's Day - AVAILABLE

Children Play in Snow (Arctic) - AVAILABLE


Check-up Time - SOLD




Bird's Song for the Forest - SOLD



Berliner Morgenpost, Page 19 - SOLD


Basic Units of Life - AVAILABLE


Baa, Baa Black Sheep - AVAILABLE



Astroboy - SOLD

Arbor Day, Part Two - AVAILABLE

Animal Life, Part Three - SOLD


And Carried Them Safely Back - SOLD


A Forest Song - SOLD



1. Learning About Birds - SOLD


Walkies/1308 - SOLD

Free Ride on Sundays - AVAILABLE

The Bitter Algebra - AVAILABLE


They Like Being Together - SOLD


Then I Would Lose You Forever - AVAILABLE



The Sundowners - SOLD

The Sad Prince - SOLD

The Playgoers Beneath the Black, Black Moon - AVAILABLE

The Pit Boss - SOLD

The Last Act - SOLD

The Importance of Matter - SOLD

The Forest Industries - SOLD

The Designer Robot Family - SOLD

The Deco Trees - SOLD

The Casino Goer, Lesson No. 8 - AVAILABLE

The Bed She Made - SOLD
Flora and Fauna - SOLD

Stay Near to Protect Him - AVAILABLE

Some Go One Way, Some Go Another - SOLD

Sleep Well - SOLD

She Inhaled Deeply on the Cigarette - SOLD

She Closed Her Eyes - SOLD

She Came Awake Slowly - SOLD

Send Your Kids Gloves - SOLD

Robot #270 - SOLD
Robot #40 - SOLD

Number 2 Robot - AVAILABLE

Race Day - AVAILABLE
Primary Yellow - AVAILABLE

Phrase Reading - SOLD

They are Safe - AVAILABLE

Flag Day - AVAILABLE

They Must Breathe Air - AVAILABLE

Up and Down - AVAILABLE

On Parade Again - AVAILABLE

Mr. Moonlight - SOLD
Oh Captain, My Captain - SOLD


New York Birds (Talk, Talk) - SOLD

My Pal Watching Birds - AVAILABLE - rare acrylic on canvas

Love Birds - SOLD

Longview - AVAILABLE

Lazy 8 - AVAILABLE


Flight School - SOLD

Back to the Old School - AVAILABLE - rare piece acrylic on canvas

Through the Forest of Our Endless Numbered Days
New paintings about Life and Death by Walt Hall

Exhibition Dates: June 12 through July 7, 2010

"Through the Forest of Our Endless Numbered Days," is a continuation of the Los Angeles based artist's study of austere and melancholic forest-scapes created on discarded wood, foreign newsprints, old fashioned wallpaper and iconic advertising elements.

Hall's work shows the viewer small scenes of life and death, happiness and sadness, love and loss. This body of new work is connected, like all of the artist's work, not by a story as such, but rather by a narrative thread based on an equation of emotion leading to reconciliation and balance.

"Through the Forest of Our Endless Numbered Days," features several new large paintings, a group of the artist's signature work on discarded wood panels, work on glass bottles, and a salon wall of small work.

Walt Hall was born and raised in North East Los Angeles. Although an active artist from a very young age, he cut his creative teeth in the world of commercial art restoration rather than the traditional art school. Until 2000 his main focus was music and a series of local punk bands that he formed with friends. Since that time he has returned his creative focus to the visual arts.

Although painting is his first and foremost creative method he also employs a wide variety of surfaces, forms, objects, mixed media, and enjoys collecting discarded materials for assemblage work. He paints in oil as well as acrylics and produces work that ranges in size from several square inches to mural sized works on unstretched canvas.