ex libris: Avon
A library art exhibition featuring found windows by Eddie Hall
January 2026
Berlin artist Eddie Hall is pleased to present ex Libris an exhibition of twenty art pieces created working with reclaimed windows. His work combines the rigid uniformity of hard-edge painting with themes of architectural abstraction and design. These works are all made on reclaimed windows and experimenting in glass painting techniques. The overall result is a body of work exhibiting bold colors that delves into the interplay between matte painted surfaces and glass.
This is part of his likely neverending project where he plans to try and hang work at every library in Connecticut. Public libraries are an important space in the community and people of all ages, backgrounds, and income levels feel welcome there. Showing his work in these spaces allows it to reach an audience who might not otherwise seek it out, with people appreciating the work that would not regularly see it at a gallery. There are 169 towns in Connecticut - not all have libraries and not all those libraries have places to display art, but every time Hall looks up where to go next, he realizes there are even more. He loves the challenge of curating works to each unique space that these libraries have to show artwork and is going to try and display at every library in Connecticut that he can - and probably will not even get close to all of them.
Avon Free Public Library
281 Country Club Road
Avon, CT 06001
860-673-9712
Library Hours
Monday - Thursday 10am-8:30pm
Friday, Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 1-5pm
Virtual Gallery
A geometric stained glass window with triangular and diamond shapes in green, black, gold, and gray, framed in teal, set against a white wall.
Framed abstract art piece featuring geometric shapes in blue, white, and black, mounted on a wall.
A digital artwork of a stylized building with illuminated windows, a prominent structure in the center, a background featuring a bright full moon, all framed in a wooden frame on a wooden surface.
A geometric wall art piece with geometric shapes in red and white with a wooden frame
A framed geometric artwork with green, teal, and black lines forming nested triangles, set against a white wall.
A colorful pinball machine with a blue background, yellow, red, and black geometric patterns, and a glass top.
Colorful abstract geometric art piece featuring a central blue rectangle with a red circle at the top and a black and orange circular element at the bottom, set against a textured brown background with various lines and color blocks.
A pixel art-style geometric design on a black background with a blue frame.
Framed abstract geometric artwork featuring colorful triangles, squares, and a boat shape on a white wall.
A colorful tile puzzle game in a black and blue frame, with red, blue, yellow, and white tiles arranged in a pattern, on a wooden surface.
Geometric art piece with a series of nested square shapes in red, blue, and purple colors, with a red sculpture at the bottom.
A framed digital illustration of a building structure with a central tower and two wings extending from it, depicted in shades of beige, blue, and yellow, with a yellow background and a blue border.
Colorful wall clock with round dots in various colors and a central white circle, surrounded by a blue frame, mounted on a white wall.
A blue decorative window frame with geometric patterns and small red accents, mounted on a white wall.
Colorful framed geometric art featuring yellow, orange, black, and white triangles arranged in a symmetrical pattern, mounted on a white wall.
A wooden-framed shoe box with a colorful illustration of a geometric landscape, featuring a blue sky, rainbow-like bands, and a pyramidal mountain, with small blue and black geometric shapes and a black clip at the bottom.
A colorful pinball machine with a blue background, yellow, red, and black accents, and a design featuring a spaceship.
A vintage green and black electronic game with a grid of illuminated geometric patterns on a white surface.
A black box with a gold sphere connected by red laser lines to a red square with a gold circle inside it, positioned in the center of the box.
Framed geometric artwork with red and blue patterns on a dark background, hung on a white wall.
Interior of an art gallery with colorful geometric paintings on the wall. There is a row of black and green padded benches and a small round table with brochures and a small object on it.
Gallery wall with colorful abstract artwork displayed in an art gallery.
An art gallery wall featuring framed geometric and abstract artwork with a wall label and a small table in a modern indoor setting.
Art gallery display with four framed modern abstract artworks on a gray wall, surrounded by ceiling spotlights.
Museum or gallery interior with colorful framed artwork on the wall and informational plaques. Gray walls and ceiling, memorial plaques, benches, and indoor lighting.
Eddie Hall is an artist in Berlin, Connecticut creating works using windows which exhibit vibrant colors and geometric patterns drawing inspiration from architectural and design themes. Hall is self taught as an artist, an active member of the Kehler Liddell Gallery and Silvermine Guild of Artists and has been featured and won awards in solo and group shows throughout New England, including at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Mattatuck Museum, Hill-Stead Museum, Mystic Museum of Art, Edward Hopper House & Museum, Slater Memorial Museum, Scope Miami, Hygienic Arts, Cambridge Arts Association, Greenwich Arts Society, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, and Ursa Gallery. He is a recipient of the Artist Respond grant from the Connecticut Office of the Arts and his work is in numerous private collections and currently on display at the Connecticut State Capitol Building.
For further information please contact: Eddie Hall at info@eddiehallart.com
From the artist:
If you start looking, you would be surprised how many windows you find lying by the side of the road. Art and design elements have been applied to the discarded windows included in my work, transforming them into items of beauty.
After an experiment with an antique window hanging untouched in my kitchen for years, I found myself returning to the visuals I could achieve with acrylic paints on the reverse of recycled windows. In this medium, I saw an ideal presentation for bold colors and geometric patterns.
My process starts with selective removal of imperfections in the windows. Sanding, priming, removing hardware, turning the item into a canvas. Once prepared, detailed work begins taping lines, razoring edges, layering paints in reverse, color selection, meticulously scraping away mistakes, and often planning depth effect using multiple panes and maximizing the interplay between matte and glossy using the reverse and foreground of the glass.
Several themes have presented themselves in these works, some architectural, some representational, and some purely design. These works have allowed me to transform and reuse otherwise discarded items.