Josephine Halvorson Is on the Clock | “New York Close Up” | Art21 video
http://www.josephinehalvorson.com/
Terrific review by John Yau on Hyperallergic of Josephine Halvorson current show, up until March 1 at the Sikkema Jenkins Gallery in NYC
From the gallery press release:
Halvorson 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. Each work that results shares a natural
likeness with the object, yet bares its own countenance.In the past, Halvorson has traveled far afield, making
paintings on the road, seeking intimacy from happenstance.
For this new body of work she stays local, concentrating on
the immediate surroundings of her studio and home in
western Massachusetts – the foundation of a new structure,
a woodshed, and heat from a fire.With extended attention over the course of daylight hours,
latent histories are expressed and unexpected
understandings of the everyday emerge. Traces of human
activity, composition of material, and evidence of energy
surface in the paintings. As Halvorson looks hard at the
routinely overlooked, she finds liveliness in stillness and the
unforeseen in the seen.
Painting Perceptions was started in 2009 by Larry Groff to promote the ideas, practice and experience of painters working from observation in a modernist vein from around the world through interviews, essays, videos and community. It later evolved to include imagination-based and abstract painting as well.
This is great Larry! Thanks for posting it. Her clarity of purpose and how thought through and considered her process is really wonderful. I’m hoping to get to the show before it closes.
It is very inspiring to see someone dedicating himself to doing something so esoteric. so original. painting someone else’s painting. trying to connect to that peorson who did that and elevate their work to a work of art. without that person being part of the proccess. being able to be a genius inside a crowd of people. being with them and not needing them. needing them but staying you. taking a stand inside and outside of the people at the same time.