"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." http://www.aptglobal.org/en/Artists/Page/4895/Josephine-Halvorson "What’s the relationship between an artist and her subject? In this film, artist Josephine Halvorson guides a video crew through an exhibition of her recent paintings—What Looks Back (2011)—at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan. Intimately exploring the detailed surfaces of her canvases like a roving eye, the camera evokes the conversational give-and-take between painter, object, and painting. The subjects of Halvorson’s works are often singular, overlooked objects—masked-over windows, weathered walls, defunct mechanical devices—that she paints in their original environments. For Halvorson, who completes works on location in a single day-long session, choosing a subject to paint is an extremely personal and contingent process. As she describes it, “encountering something in the world, an object, allows me to realize a painting that I have somehow already apprehended, even though I’ve never made it.” Traveling widely from her home in Brooklyn, Halvorson’s experiential process reaches outside the more common studio-based painting practices of New York City, taking her to train yards in Tennessee, a slaughterhouse in Iceland, and the English countryside...." SEE VIDEOS http://www.art21.org/newyorkcloseup/films/close-encounters-with-josephine-halvorson/ undefined

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