Josephine Halvorson: Unforgotten

JOSEPHINE HALVORSON UNFORGOTTEN

March 17 –

April 22, 2023

JOSEPHINE HALVORSON UNFORGOTTEN

Josephine Halvorson’s paintings emerge from chance or repeated encounters with objects the artist comes across while wandering and traveling. Her practice often takes place outdoors, naturally relating to daylight, geography, and season. The works in this show center on still life and memento mori, artistic genres that, for Halvorson, “hover between liveliness and decay.” She is drawn to things which have little apparent value—objects and spaces that have been, or may be, forgotten. Sharing the same air and hours with a subject, Halvorson finds within them latent expressions and buried meanings.

Since 2018, Halvorson has been painting with acrylic gouache on absorbent grounds. Inspired by fresco painting’s ability to indelibly hold color and mark, the artist has sought to make a sensitive surface that preserves her observations in real time. Painting in longhand, Halvorson works in a verité style, documenting the subtle shifts of shadow and thought. As she says, “I want to make a painting that remembers better than I can.”

Josephine Halvorson (b. 1981, USA) received her BFA from The Cooper Union and her MFA from Columbia University. Her work was most recently presented in the solo exhibitions Josephine Halvorson: On the Ground at the Ogunquit Museum of Art, ME (2022) and Contemporary Voices: Josephine Halvorson (2021) at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, where she was also the Museum’s first Artist-in-Residence in 2019. Other notable solo exhibitions include the Foster Prize Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2019); Josephine Halvorson: Measures at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY (2016); and Josephine Halvorson: Slow Burn, her first museum survey, at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (2015).

Halvorson has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2021), the US Fulbright (2003-4), and the French Academy in Rome (2014-15), as the first American pensionnaire; in 2009, she was a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Her work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the High Museum, Atlanta, GA; ICA Boston, MA; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; and Orlando Museum of Art, FL. Halvorson is Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University, and currently lives in Massachusetts.

Peony, 2022 Acrylic gouache on panels

Buried Barrel, 2022 Acrylic gouache on panel 23 × 27 inches (58.4 × 68.6 cm)

Tumbleweed, 2022 Acrylic gouache on panel 26 × 29 inches (66 × 73.7 cm)

Station Meter, 2023 Acrylic gouache on panel 31 × 29 inches (78.7 × 73.7 cm)

Offering Rock, 2022 Acrylic gouache on panel

31 × 34 inches (78.7 × 86.4 cm)

Roadside Memorial, 2021 Acrylic gouache on panel 22 × 24 inches (55.9 × 61 cm)

Important Notice, 2023 Acrylic gouache on panel 33 × 40 inches (83.8 × 101.6 cm)

Roots, 2022 Acrylic gouache on panel 36 × 35 inches (91.4 × 88.9 cm)

Butterfly, 2022 Acrylic gouache on panel 31 × 26 inches (78.7 × 66 cm)

Army Heater, 2022

Acrylic gouache on panel

50 × 32 inches (127 × 81.3 cm)

New England Blacksmiths, 2021 Acrylic gouache on panel 44 × 31 inches (111.8 × 78.7 cm)

JOSEPHINE HALVORSON

Born 1981, Brewster, MA

Lives and works in New Marlborough and Boston, MA

EDUCATION

2007 MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY

2003-4 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship, Vienna, Austria

2003 BFA, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

2002 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Unforgotten, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, March 17 – April 22, 2023

2022 Josephine Halvorson: On the Ground, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME, May 1 –July 19, 2022, curated by Theresa Choi, Assistant Curator

2021 Contemporary Voices: Josephine Halvorson, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, October 1, 2021 – March 28, 2022

Josephine Halvorson: Five Grounds, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July 2 – August 2, 2021

2020 On the Ground, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, January 23 – February 29, 2020

2019 Foster Prize Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, August 21, 2019 – January 5, 2020, curated by Ruth Erickson

2017 As I Went Walking, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, October 19 – November 22, 2017

2016 Josephine Halvorson: Measures, as the 2016 Outlooks series curated by Nora Lawrence, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY, May 14 – November 13, 2016

2015 Josephine Halvorson: Slow Burn, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, March 26 – May 31, 2015, curated by Cora Fisher

2014 À Moly-Sabata, Angle Art Conteporain, St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, France, September 17 –November 8, 2014

Facings, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, January 23 – March 1, 2014

2012 Side By Side, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France, November 17, 2012 – January 26, 2013

2011 What Looks Back, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, October 21 – December 3, 2011

2009 Clockwise From Window, Monya Rowe, New York, NY, November 7, 2009 – January 16, 2010

Josephine Halvorson, The Volta Show, exhibited by Monya Rowe, New York, NY, March 5 – 8, 2009

2008 Josephine Halvorson, West Gallery, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, November 19, 2008 –January 10, 2009

Peintures de Patience, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France

2005 Vienna Portraits, Humanities Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

Still Lifes, RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Singing In Unison, Part Six, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY, September 7 – October 15, 2022

Still Life and the Poetry of Place, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY, September 3 –October 16, 2022

2021 Life Still, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, October 22 –December 3, 2021

You Again, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, June 24 – August 21, 2021, curated by Franklin Evans

What Looms Large, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, September 14 – July 17, 2022

A Quiet Scale, School of Visual Arts Flatiron Project Space, New York, NY, September 13 –October 15, 2021, curated by Catherine Haggarty

2020 Visionary New England, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, October 8, 2020 –March 14, 2021

The Place as Metaphor, Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, January 18 – September 6, 2020

2019 Space Heater, Able Baker, Portland, ME, December 6, 2019 – January 12, 2020, curated by Annika Earley

The Practice of Everyday Life, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, April 18 – May 19, 2019

Rios Intermitentes/Intermittent Rivers, XIII Bienal de La Habana/Havana Biennial, Matanzas, Cuba, April 13 – May 21, 2019, curated by Maria Magdalena Campos Pons

Those Who Can: Works by Boston University Painting Faculty, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, April 5 – May 1, 2019

2018 A Few Conversations Between Women, 808 Gallery at Boston University, Boston, MA, September 4 – 28, 2018

Crosstown Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, July 1 – November 1, 2018, curated by Loretta Yarlow and Sandy Litchfield

Excavation, Peter Blum, New York, NY, June 7 – August 31, 2018

Measure (Tree), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, June 2, 2018 – July 1, 2019

Fenêtre Jaune Cadmium, Institut Français, Centre Saint-Louis, Rome, Italy, May 24 – June 13, 2018

TEFAF Spring 2018, New York, NY, May 4-8, 2018

The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, March 2018 – March 10, 2019

The Case Against Reality, Marinaro, New York, NY, February 22 – April 8, 2018

2017 En Crue, Moly Sabata, Sablons, France, September 16 – October 29, 2017

Immigrancy, Samsøn, Boston, MA, September 8 – November 11, 2017, curated by Camilø

Álvårez

Gray Matters, Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH, May 20 – July 30, 2017

Images at Work: L’abstration au quotidian – Volet 1, Abstract Room, Paris, May 20 – 21, 2017

2016 A Way of Living, Apalazzogallery, Brescia, Italy, September 29 – November 15, 2016, curated by Nathalie Provosty and N. Dash

Studio Systems, AAR Gallery at the American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, May 19 – July 3, 2016, curated by Peter Benson Miller

It Was Never Linear…Recent Painting, Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska –Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, May 6 – July 31, 2016

Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought of before, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, April 19 – May 28, 2016

2015 Social Ecologies, Rail Curatorial Projects, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, December 10, 2015 –February 21, 2016, curated by Greg Lindquist

Josephine Halvorson, Leslie Hewitt, and Jennie C. Jones, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, December 10, 2015 – January 23, 2016

Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable-Sized Paintings, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, October 18 – December 22, 2015, curated by Phong Bui

muscular, Kansas, New York, NY, June 27 – July 25, 2015, curated by John McAllister

The Guston Effect, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA, May 15 – August 15, 2015

Stirring Still, LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY, April 3 – 29, 2015, organized by Ioana Manolache and Maria Stabio

Tracing Shadows, PLATEAU, Seoul, Korea, March 12 – June 7, 2015

Teatro delle Esposizioni #6, French Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, February 27 – April 12, 2015, curated by Claudio Libero-Pisano and Éric de Chassey

Souvenirs de Paris, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY, February 26 – April 4, 2015, curated by Camille Morineau

Conversation Piece – Part 1, Fondazione Memmo-Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, February 10 – April 12, 2015, curated by Marcello Smarrelli

2014 Please Enter, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, October 23 – December 20, 2014, curated by Beth Rudin deWoody

Acquisition Trust: Celebrating Thirty Years of Building a Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, October 11 – November 2, 2015

Painter’s Painter: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, June 14 – November 2, 2014

2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, March 6 – April 12, 2014

2013 L’Hourloupe, Greenlease Art Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, September 6 –October 12, 2013, curated by David Rhoades

Black Cake, Team Gallery, New York, NY, January 10 – February 16, 2013, curated by Alex Gartenfeld

2012 Still, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK, June 29 – September 15, 2012, curated by Peter Fleissig

The Big Picture, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, June 8 – July 25, 2012

2011 2011 Artist in Residence Biennial, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, November 10 – December 9, 2011

The Death of Affect, Artblog/Artblog, New York, NY, October 14 – 28, 2011, curated by Fran Holdtrom & Jeffrey Scott Mathews

Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY, March 16 – April 22, 2011

Ex Libris, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY, January 26 – February 26, 2011

2010 Painting and Sculpture: Foundation for Contemporary Arts Benefit Exhibition, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, December 9, 2010 – January 9, 2011

Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, November 23 – December 22, 2010, curated by Tom Huhn & Isabel Taube

Perceiving Place, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, October 22 –December 1, 2010

Americanana, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY, September 16 – December 4, 2010, curated by Katy Siegal

Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL, Houston, TX, May 8 – June 19, 2010, curated by Jackie Gendel & Tom McGrath

New Work From New York, Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Patricia Treib

Perceiving Place, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, October 22 — December 1, 2010, curated by Stephanie McMahon

Fool’s House, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 11 – 29, curated by Nora Griffin

Rites of Passage, 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, January 20 –February 11, 2010, curated by Thomas Micchelli

2009 Party at Chris’s House, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 20 – December 20, 2009, curated by Phong Bui

The Open, Deitch Projects, Long Island City, NY, September 10 – October 25, 2009

Perception as Object, Monya Rowe, New York, NY, January 8 – February 14, 2009

Editions/Artists Book Fair, monoprints exhibited by Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY

What’s Bin Did And What’s Bin Hid, Gallery 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY, October 18 – November 15, 2009, curated by Ryan Stedman

Hand-In-Hand, Non-Objectif Sud, Tulette, France, July 12 – September 7, 2009, curated by Michael Zahn

Subverted Genres, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY, May 5 – June 16, 2009, curated by Gabriela Galati & Rebecca Mirsky

Close to Home, Cuchifritos, New York, NY, May 2 – June 13, 2009, curated by Melissa Levin & Mike Quinn

Breaking Into The Human Race, Great Hall Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

2008 Lost in Your Eyes, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

A Friend Indeed: Contemporary Art and the Academy, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington DC, November 3 – 28, 2008

Union Square, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY, July 7 – August 1, 2008

2007 The Show’s So Nice, Monya Rowe, New York, NY, September 6 – October 20, 2007

Columbia University MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Daniel Bozhkov, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY, May 6 – 27, 2007

2006 Dead Serious, The Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, curated by Yola Monakhov

2005 Special Collection, The New York Public Library, New York, NY, curated by Laura Napier

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

High Museum, Atlanta, GA

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES

2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY

2019 Recipient of the Blackwell Prize in Painting, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA

ArtRez, Newnan, GA

Inaugural Artist in Residence, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM

2018 Printmaking residency, Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH

Printmaking residency, Experimental Print Institute, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

2017 Artist residency, Moly Sabata, Sablons, France

Printmaking residency, Flying Horse Editions, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

2016 Artist residency, Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Florida

2014-15 Rome Prize, French Academy at the Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

2014 Artist residency, Moly Sabata, Sablons, France

2013-14 Printmaking Residency, Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY

2012 Steep Rock Arts Residency, Washington, CT

2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Painting

Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

2009 Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2007-08 Harriet Hale Woolley Artist Residency, Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris, France

2006 D’Arcy Hayman Trust Scholarship, Columbia University, New York, NY

2005 Artist residency, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, CT

2003-04 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship in Painting, Vienna, Austria