Josephine Halvorson

Born 1981 in Brewster, MA.

 

For Volta 2009, Josephine Halvorson will present a new group ofpaintings.  Intimately sized and painted perceptually, they reflect acommunion between artist and object, revealing intrinsic histories andcreating new ones.  Halvorson received a MFA from Columbia University,NY; BFA from The Cooper Union, NY and was the recipient of a FulbrightFellowship to Vienna in 2003-4.  She recently completed a yearlongresidency at the Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris, France. Her work hasbeen exhibited at Monya Rowe Gallery, Taxter & Spengemann and SikkemaJenkins & Co. Halvorson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.



Josephine Halvorson, History Puzzle, 2008, oil on linen, 17 by 22 inches