Josephine Halvorson Paints to Remember

Photo caption: Josephine Halvorson, “Roadside Memorial” (2021), acrylic on canvas, 22 x 24 inches (all images © Josephine Halvorson, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, photos by Julia Featheringill). Article by John Yau. Hyperallergic – April 3, 2023.

When Josephine Halvorson finds her subject, she stops just long enough to paint it. It could be numbers on the siding of a railroad car, a sign tacked to a tree trunk, the dark patch where a sign once was, or a window sill. Her work can be divided into two periods. Between 2007 and 2018, she painted in oil on canvas, often using a dark, tonal palette, and she was seemingly never more than an arm’s length away from her subject. […]

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