Label Text:
Josephine Halvorson’s painting of an ash-strewn hearth offers specific, familiar residues to the eye, while also summoning temporal registers of time and experience that can only exist off canvas—the flames that have since died to cinders, the heat that must now be fading. This composition could also read as a painter’s palette, or a studio work surface: three livid dots of orange signal glowing embers, and straw-like fragments cast illusionistic black shadows, yet the smudges of ash throughout are equally evident as mere smudges of paint. There is no center, only an all-over scatter, casually framed. Meanwhile the artist reminds viewers of the canvas itself, too, by scratching her first initial, “J,” into the work’s lower right corner. (Kate Nesin, 2021)
Tags:
environment; dust Subjects:
Women artists; Linen Link to share this object record:
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