Eli Hill's 'Internal Weather' at Harkawik Explores Bodies in Volatile Spaces

Harkawik gallery in New York presents 'Internal Weather,' Eli Hill's third solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring new paintings that merge self-portraiture and landscape. Hill's figures are weighty and present, while their environments—bathroom walls, racetracks, water—pulse, tilt, and glow unnaturally, making the body a temporary anchor. Many figures turn away, absorbed in their own orbits, resisting legible identity or narrative. Hill expands his portrayal of masculinity as performed and negotiated, showing tenderness, yearning, isolation, and grotesqueness. The running track motif recurs, reflecting Hill's own long-distance running; in 'Competition' it becomes a site of comparison, in 'Heat Days' movement through heavy air warps the track's surface. Quieter moments include 'Throuple in the Sun,' where limbs merge in warmth, and 'Trans Period,' where a figure folds inward in a saturated red bathroom. The exhibition runs through a yet-unspecified date at Harkawik in New York.