110. JOSEPHINE HALVORSON
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"Carcass", oil on linen,
86,36 x 71,12cm. 2011
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"Horse Farm Fog", oil on linen,
35,56 x 43,18cm. 2007
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64, oil on linen, 43,18 x 30,48 cm.
2013
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1981, in Brewster, USA
Studies:
2002 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT
2003 BFA, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2003-4 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship, Vienna, Austria
2007 MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
Nowadays:
She is currently a
fellow at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici. She lives and works out
of Brooklyn, New York and western Massachusetts and teaches painting at Yale
University, Princeton University, and The Cooper Union.
Themes and
style:
She
makes paintings on-site, face to face with an object in its environment. Often
no more than an arm’s length away, she detects variations in texture, light,
and temperature, transcribing these perceptions through the medium of paint.
The result is an intimate portrait of the object, capturing both a natural
likeness as well as the often unseen or overlooked character of her chosen
subject.
Techniques:
Her work
is mostly developed in oil on linen paintings
which combines with other materials and media.
Exhibitions
Representative
Galleries:
Sikkema
Jenkins & Co.
In
her own words:
“Painting
in my childhood was very much encouraged, but also questioned, because it
didn’t have the physical permanence of other materials: metal was solid, meant
to last, always useful, whereas painting was deemed somewhat flimsy by
comparison. And that is, of course, the name of the game — painting can be so
much and so little at the same time.”
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more Information: