Josephine Halvorson
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Josephine Halvorson (born 1981) is an American painter based out of Western Massachusetts. She is best known for her on-site paintings, drawing from scenes of the natural world and everyday life.
Josephine Halvorson | |
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| Born | 1981 Brewster, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Columbia University
Cooper Union |
| Known for | Painting |
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Early life and education
Josephine Halvorson was born and raised in Brewster, Massachusetts. Both of her parents were artists, working in the mediums of paint and metal sculpture.[1] In high school, Halvorson took life painting classes and practiced painting en plein air on the beaches of Cape Cod.
Halvorson received a bachelor of arts from The Cooper Union in 2003 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2007. During her junior year in 2002, she attended a six-week intensive program at the Yale University School of Art in Norfolk, Connecticut.[2] Following her graduation from Cooper Union, she was granted a yearlong fellowship in Vienna through the United States Fulbright.[citation needed]
Career
Artistic practice
Halvorson primarily paints en plein air. Her scenes often depict areas found in her everyday life and natural environment, such as books, newspapers, doors, windows, and areas of ground. Through her practice of painting on-site and in one continuous session, her paintings are able to mark the time and place of their own creation. Halvorson views her scenes as "active objects," interacting with the artist and inhabiting their own field of scale, shape, and texture across her canvas.[2] "I’ve come to think of my practice as a collaboration between me, my materials, and the world, where the painting becomes a testament to time spent together," Halvorson said in an interview with fellow artist Firelei Baez.[3] The translation of physical site onto canvas through her paintings often figures as a trompe-l'oeil, as the boundary between the space of the artwork and the space of the viewer becomes blurred.
Halvorson's first solo museum show, Slow Burn, was exhibited in 2015 at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Curated by Cora Fisher, the exhibition featured over twenty oil paintings by Halvorson, each one painted over the course of a single day.[4]
In 2016, Halvorson created three site-specific sculptures for her first outdoor exhibition at Storm King Art Center. Her large, painted wooden rulers function as both art object and perceptual tool, emphasizing the human labor of painting with the massive scale of the surrounding environment.[5] "I was hoping it would align with certain natural features that you could almost measure — the length of the ridge of a mountain or the distance between trees,” Halvorson said of her giant measuring devices. “It is always changing based on your orientation to it.”[6]
Academia
Halvorson currently teaches as Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University.[7] From 2010 to 2016, she served as Critic and Senior Critic at the Yale School of Art MFA program in Painting. She has also taught at The Cooper Union, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Tennessee Knoxville.[8]
Selected exhibitions
- 2016 Outlooks: Josephine Halvorson, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY[5]
- 2017 Gray Matters, Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH[9]
- 2017 As I Went Walking, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY[10]
- 2018 The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA[11]
Awards and honors
- 2006 D'Arcy Hayman Trust Scholarship, Columbia University, New York, NY
- 2010 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
- 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Painting
- 2014-2015 Rome Prize, French Academy at the Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
- 2019 James and Audrey Foster Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston[12]
References
- ^ "Beer with a Painter: Josephine Halvorson". Hyperallergic. 2014-04-26. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
- ^ a b "Yale University School of Art: Josephine Halvorson". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
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- ^ "Josephine Halvorson: Slow Burn". SECCA - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
- ^ a b "JOSEPHINE HALVORSON". stormking.org. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
- ^ Hodara, Susan (2016-06-24). "At Storm King, a Landscape of Stars, Rulers and Pipes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
- ^ "Josephine Halvorson joins CFA as Professor of Painting | College of Fine Arts". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
- ^ "JOSEPHINE HALVORSON". www.sikkemajenkinsco.com. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Gray Matters | Wexner Center for the Arts". wexarts.org. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
- ^ "AS I WENT WALKING". www.sikkemajenkinsco.com. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "The Lure of the Dark Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night". MASS MoCA. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
- ^ "2019 James and Audrey Foster Prize | icaboston.org". www.icaboston.org. Retrieved 2018-12-19.