Josephine Halvorson makes paintings from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. She studied at The Cooper Union and Columbia University, and has since received numerous residencies and awards including a Fulbright fellowship to Austria, the Rome Prize at the French Academy at the Villa Medici, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Her work is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris, and she has exhibited internationally across institutions such as Storm King Art Center, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and the ICA Boston. Halvorson is Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University.
At MacDowell, Halvorson made a nine-part painting of the fireplace in her studio. Fit together as a grid, the painting portrays the brick surround, heat from the wood stove, books on the mantle, as well as a clock which appears twice.
