"It was exciting to experience this collection from this skilled lifelong artist...  
      Viewers and listeners cannot help but be impacted when learning how the circumstances of poor health and differing abilities, including his partial loss of sight, turned it into the creation of a new visual art genre. 
      Jim is one whose example in art and in life shows us that the word “disability” isn’t real – and that ability comes from creating a new normal."  
                                                   Lydia Bailey Brown 
       former Executive Director, Kentucky Arts Council
​       “The technique is something I’ve never quite encountered before. I think it’s heroic… Jim Hall’s work is just as relevant as it can be.        
        The world has fallen in love with the artists who have developed their own language: Monet, Van Gogh, Seurat, in their use of color and their use of mark making.  It is the hallmark of modern expression to create a personal vocabulary.  
        And so, I think Lineillism is very relevant to late 20th century and
21st century painting.”
                                                                                 Marlene Steele
                                     Art Academy of Cincinnati