Halsey Hathaway
Hathaway’s paintings usually combine a dual aspect, which expands the traditional view of the abstract and optical, as John Yau states in his article on Halsey’s work:
“The variations in the surface pull viewers closer, making us aware that color and materiality (or immateriality) cannot be separated. No matter how optical a color may become, our experience of it is - to state the obvious - visceral. The skin of acrylic paint presents a different kind of visceral experience from that of the stains because it privileges the tactile.” *
This tactility speaks of emotions and feelings through a complex relationship of the physical work and our subjective perceptual experiences. Hathaway seeks to make work that is intentionally vulnerable to the relationship of changing environments, of light and space; to the fluctuating subjectivity of the viewer.
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b. 1980 Buffalo, NY
Lives and works in New York, United States
Education
Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY 2002
Hunter College New York, NY 2006
Halsey Hathaway is a 2010 fellow in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2024
Night Visit, Xxijra Hii, London, England
2023
All These Too, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2021
Through Kaleidoscope Eyes SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Interstice Kristen Lorello New York, NY
Body Surf Xxijra Hii London, England
2017
SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Halsey Hathaway|Julia Kunin Kristen Lorello New York, NY
2016
Outer Place Rawson Projects, New York, NY
2015
Expo Chicago, solo presentation with Rawson Projects
2014
Rawson Projects, New York, NY
2013
Rawson Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Drawings Denny Gallery (project room) New York, NY
2012
New Paintings (two person exhibition with Gary Petersen) Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Paintings Reid Chapel, First & Franklin Presbyterian, Baltimore, MD
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Painters NYC El Museo de los Pintores Oaxaquenos, Oaxaca, Mexico organized by Meaghan Kent and Maureen Cavanaugh
2015
Painters NYC Paramo Galleria, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico organized by Meaghan Kent and Maureen Cavanaugh
2014
Site/Displace Kristen Lorello, New York, NY
Summer Love Front Room, Brooklyn, NY curated by Julia Whitney-Barnes and Sean Hemmerle
2013
Cathedral: Architecture and Atmosphere Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Same Same But Different Guest Spot @ The Reinstitute, Baltimore, MD
Thanks Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, NY curated by Adam Parker Smith
Strange Times Novella Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Line and Plane McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
New Works Nathan Bernstein & Co. (three person exhibition with Jolynn Krystosek and Peter Demos)
2011
Friend of a Friend Thompson Giroux Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
The Working Title Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY organized by Progress Report
Small Black Show Small Black Door, Rigewood, NY
Control Alt Delete Brooklyn, NY Curated by HKJB
Everything Must Go Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY A project with Ceramica Suro Guadalajara, Mexico Organized by Jose Noe Suro and Eduardo Sarabia
2010
Portable Caves Long Island City, NY curated by HKJB
Continuing Color Abstraction The Painting Center New York, NY curated by Rella Stuart-Hunt
World's Greatest Daily Operation, Brooklyn, NY curated by Jon Lutz
Schaffler@25 Schaffler Gallery, Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY curated by Eleanor Moretta
True Singing is a Different Breathing Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY curated by Andrew Prayzner
2009
Pulp Fiction Works on Paper Eleven Rivington, New York, NY curated by Augusto Arbizo
The Life and Times of ... Silver Shed New York, NY curated by John Tremblay
Bad Graphic Design Brooklyn, NY curated by HKJB
Forever Summer Platform Gallery New York, NY curated by Scott Malbaurn
2008
All Cut Up Roebling Hall, New York, NY curated by Rita de Alencar Pinto
Frantically Baroque Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Chapter One: A Show of Pictures Parallel Projects, New York, NY curated by Daniel Bruce
2004
MA's Select MFA's Hunter Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Awards and Honors:
Tony Smith Award, Hunter College CUNY 2006