Josephine Halvorson: Unforgotten
Conversation with Eleanor Heartney
Tuesday, April 11, 1 PM EST
Josephine Halvorson, Important Notice, 2023; acrylic gouache on panel. Photo: Julia Featheringill.
As part of The Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment series, Josephine Halvorson and Eleanor Heartney will discuss Halvorson’s practice and current solo exhibition, Unforgotten. The event will conclude with a poetry reading by Lisa Ragel. The conversation will be held virtually over Zoom.
Josephine Halvorson makes art that foregrounds firsthand experience and takes the form of painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, she studied at The Cooper Union (BFA 2003), Yale Norfolk (2002), and Columbia University (MFA 2007). In 2021, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Halvorson is the recipient of major international residencies and fellowships such as the Harriet Hale Woolley at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France (2007-8), and was the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici (2014-15). She is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up. She is Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University.
New York-based art critic Eleanor Heartney is the author of numerous books on contemporary art. Heartney is a Contributing Editor for Art in Americaand has written extensively for publications including Artnews, The New Art Examiner, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. She is author of several noteworthy books about art, such as Art & Today (2008), Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2004), co-author of After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art (2007) (winner of the Susan Koppelman Award), and most recently, Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2019). She is an Editor-at-Large for the Rail.
Josephine Halvorson: Unforgotten in Conversation with Eleanor Heartney will be held Tuesday, April 11, 1 PM EST/10 AM PST. Click here to register.