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As museums continue expanding, as exhibitions smack more and more of spectacle, to spend an hour with the tranquil paintings of Maureen Gallace feels almost like an act of defiance.
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The Boston University School of Visual Arts has announced the appointment of Josephine Halvorson as professor of art and chair of graduate studies in painting.
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At first, Josephine Halvorson’s paintings of plywood forms used for casting concrete might appear dull. But on closer inspection, they’re enlivened
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How do you make an artist? At The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan, artist Josephine Halvorson guides an undergraduate
Read MoreAt first, Josephine Halvorson’s paintings of plywood forms used for casting concrete might appear dull. But on closer inspection, they’re enlivened
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Up at Columbia’s LeRoy Neiman Gallery MFA student Nora Griffin – well-known already downtown and before her enrollment as a writer on the Brooklyn Rail
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A few days after the opening reception of her exhibit What Looks Back at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (October 21–December 4, 2011), the painter Josephine Halvorson
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Josephine Halvorson is a contemporary observational painter whose work enters into a lively philosophical dialogue with an unaffiliated group of international artists
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The latest New York Close Up film is now available for your viewing: Close Encounters with Josephine Halvorson. What’s the relationship between
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The painter takes her easel on the road Josephine Halvorson makes small artworks that have a huge impact. Why do viewers stop dead in their tracks
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Organized by painter Josephine Halvorson and borrowing its title from John Gutmann’s 1937 photograph of the same name, “I Am the Magic Hand” brings
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Up at Columbia’s LeRoy Neiman Gallery MFA student Nora Griffin – well-known already downtown and before her enrollment as an editor on the Brooklyn Rail
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.Josephine Halvorson’s representational paintings of battered objects and overlooked corners
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Josephine Halvorson (b. 1981, Brewster, MA) received her MFA from Columbia University in 2007, her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2003, and attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art in 2002. Halvorson is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Vienna, Austria (2003-4), The Tiffany Foundation Award (2009), and a NYFA Fellowship in Painting (2010). She has enjoyed yearlong residencies in Paris as a Harriet Hale Woolley Fellow at the Fondation des États-Unis (2007-8), and in Brooklyn at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program (2009-10). Solo exhibitions include “Clockwise From Window” at Monya Rowe Gallery (2009-10) and “Josephine Halvorson” at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.’s West Gallery (2008-9). Selected group exhibitions include “New Work From New York” curated by Patricia Treib at Golden Gallery, Chicago; “The Open” at Deitch Studios, Long Island City; “Hand-In-Hand” curated by Michael Zahn at Non-Objectif Sud, Tulette, France; “Subverted Genres” curated by Rebecca Mirsky & Gabriela Galati at Sue Scott Gallery, New York; “Close To Home” curated by Melissa Levin & Mike Quinn at Cuchifritos, New York; and “Union Square” at Taxter & Spengemann, New York. Halvorson’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. She teaches at Yale University, has taught at Columbia University, and been a visiting artist at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Vassar College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Yale Norfolk. Halvorson lives and works in Brooklyn and her work is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
In her practice, Josephine Halvorson engages objects that are often over-looked and reveal traces of human activity, such as tools, writing, and fragments. Painting directly from life and often in a single session, Halvorson's practice allows for a prolonged closeness with a single thing. The patience of perception in her work reflects this collaboration between her, her materials and an object, in which each painting becomes a record of the artist's conversation with the world, and a material testament to the object in time.
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