Charles Christopher Hill

At the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Hill studied with Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, and Vija Celmins, with classmates Chris Burden, Alexis Smith, Ned Evans, and Richard Newton.

With their vibrant hues, and rough, distressed surfaces, they are at once sublime and down-home, flickering somewhere between Color Field painting and well-loved, homemade quilts.

"[2] Susan C. Larsen, writing about Hill's earlier newspaper-based work in ARTnews describes:"work [that] presents crumbling, brightly colored, sensuous layers of weathered paper and canvas, which have been pasted and sewn together and then weathered, buried in the ground, soaked and otherwise endangered and enriched by processes of decay.

He uses a full color palette with a final application of red or black; between each layer of paint he applies an acrylic varnish.

Echoing the ideas behind the light and space / finish fetish movement the paintings play with light, environment, and special relationships.Showing new paintings at Leslie Sacks Contemporary in Santa Monica, August 2012, critic Peter Frank writes about Hill's work in the Huffington Post: "His current stripe paintings, as raw and obdurate as they are contained and minimized, inherited their stark contracts and slick but alluring surfaces from a twenty-year-old series engaging eccentric shapes.