 Hall paint a 16-by-50-foot billboard at the corner of Santa Monica and La Cienega boulevards.In 1978, he moved into the building on South Broadway where "High Performance" magazine had its headquarters, which inspired him to paint images of performance artists like Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Stephen Seemayer, and Barbara T. Smith, whose actions the magazine featured.By 1980, he was painting still lifes using slaughtered animals retrieved from a Grand Central Market butcher.