Josephine Halvorson Brewster, Massachusetts, born 1981
O'Keeffe's Hollyhock, 2019-20
Gouache, site material, and screen print on panels
42 x 32 inches
106.7 x 81.3 cm
106.7 x 81.3 cm
In 2019, Josephine Halvorson became the first Artist-in-Residence at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM. During her residency, Halvorson spent time at O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu and...
In 2019, Josephine Halvorson became the first Artist-in-Residence at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM. During her residency, Halvorson spent time at O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu and produced a body of work in response to this new environment. The paintings presented here illustrate natural and domestic details from the landscape of Abiquiu and within O'Keeffe's home; Halvorson's gaze is directed downward to the ground beneath her feet as much as it perceives the terrain around her. A ruler painted on the edge of her canvases emphasizes the one-to-one scale of her works, and the empirical process of registering and transcribing reality into painted scene.
