Calhan Hale
Bio: Calhan Hale (b. Houston, TX) is a visual artist based in New York. She received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. She has exhibited work at Martha’s, Austin; Wrong, Marfa; Casa Lü, Mexico City; and the Wallach Art Gallery, New York and is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. She works primarily in painting and collage.
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Artist Statement: If naming something is the first step toward dealing with what is not yet known, I am interested in the inverse. My work explores what becomes possible when familiar things evade expectation and start to live independent from their associations. Re-contextualizing elements from my surroundings through painting, I play with the line between object and image in order to disrupt assumptions with surprise.
Calhan Hale
Paperweight, 2024
Oil on canvas
36" x 30" x 1.25"
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