{"id":46467,"date":"2023-03-17T18:17:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T23:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=46467"},"modified":"2023-03-23T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:48:39","slug":"josephine-mitsuko-dani-w-a-side-of-emmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2023\/03\/17\/josephine-mitsuko-dani-w-a-side-of-emmy\/","title":{"rendered":"~JOSEPHINE, MITSUKO, DANI \/ w a side of EMMY !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOME PIX !! – FROM THE OPENING OF:<\/p>\n

‘JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: UNFORGOTTEN’ . . . &
\n‘EVIDENCE of CIRCUMSTANCE’ – a 5 Person ‘Companion’ Show – curated by JOSEPHINE HALVORSON
\nSIKKEMA JENKINS<\/a>, CHELSEA, NYC – FRI MARCH 17, 2023<\/p>\n

ALL PHOTOS – NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

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\nJOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Army Heater’, 2022
\nacrylic gouache on panel
\n31 x 26 in.<\/p>\n

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\nJOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Disconnect Box’, 2022
\nacrylic gouache on panel
\n32 x 26 in.<\/p>\n

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\nJOSEPHINE HALVORSON . . at the opening of her quietly unfolding, detailed, thoughtful . . inward looking – cast outward \/ show of new paintings: ‘Unforgotten’.
\nSikkema Jenkins, NYC. MARCH 17, 2023 <\/p>\n

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\nJOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘New England Blacksmiths’, 2021
\nacrylic gouache on panel
\n44 x 31 in.<\/p>\n

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\nJOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Last Words’, detail<\/p>\n

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\nJOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Last Words’, 2022
\nacrylic gouache on panel
\n45 x 45 in.<\/p>\n

JOSEPHINE HALVORSON’s . . paintings have a curious, easy-going, all-over surface \/ a few quotes from the exhibition notes help push that dialog: “Since 2018, Halvorson has been painting with acrylic gouache on absorbent<\/strong> grounds. Inspired by fresco<\/strong> painting’s ability to indelibly hold color & mark, the artist has sought to make a sensitive<\/strong> surfacw that preserves her observations . . ” \/ “. . (she) works in a verite style<\/strong>, documenting the subtle shifts of shadow and thought. As she says: ‘I want to make a painting that remembers <\/strong> better than I can’.”<\/p>\n

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\nDANI LEVINE, ‘Swirl, Swoop, Circle’, 2020
\npigments, plastic specks, glass with hide glue on paper pulp ground
\n72 x 64 in.<\/p>\n

if Josephine’s paintings . . catch & hold, the world around her, Dani’s catch the world inside her head & sets it free. if all the world’s a garden . . this would be the flower – of internal emotions that blow – in the wind. <\/p>\n

in curating . . ‘Evidence of Circumstance’ – a group show of 5 artists which accompanies her own show, Josephine remarks . . “I have brought together works that share questions I have in my own practice, specifically how circumstance – forces beyond one’s own control – can work in tandem with artistic will. In these works, contingency, coincidence, movement<\/strong>, and environment lend a hand to artistic process, imparting their agency through material transformation.”<\/p>\n

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\nDANI LEVINE, behind her, her painting, ‘Sail Composition, No. 1, V2’, 2023<\/p>\n

Josephine Halvorson, on Dani’s work: “The direction<\/strong> that a painting takes is not up to the artist alone, but guided by a mixture of .. artistic will and the slipperiness of matter.”<\/p>\n

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\nDANI LEVIN . . . at the opening of ‘Evidence of Circumstance’, curated by Josephine Halvorson,
\nSikkema Jenkins, NYC. March 17, 2023
\nbut even so, what goes on inside that head, becomes a power-painted ‘conversation’, a focused free <\/em>fall dialog . . that we can all<\/strong> . . fall, into. <\/p>\n

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\nDANI LEVINE, ‘Sail Composition, No. 1, V2’, 2023.
\npigments with oil on canvas
\n72 x 64 in.<\/p>\n

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\nMITSUKO BROOKS, at the opening of ‘Evidence of Circumstance’, curated by JOSEPHINE HALVORSON,
\nSikkema Jenkins, NYC. March 12, 2023.<\/p>\n

if, Josephine commits shifts in reality to memory, and Dani riffs emotionally off her recollection of it, Mitsuko .. . surely makes a travelog of diary notes, ‘Evidence of Circumstance’ has many options and game plans. and we think evidence . . is such a static property \/ thing.
\nNot.
\nyou do<\/strong> know what – they teach babies: “row, row your boat – life is but a dream.”
\nbut super nice – to try and pin<\/strong> it down, for sure.<\/p>\n

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\nMITSUKO BROOKS, ‘Mail to self postmarked August 17, 2020.’, 2020.
\nbook protector, paper, watercolor, stamps, typewriter ink
\n9 x 12-1\/4 in.<\/p>\n

“Miitsuko Brooks sends mail art to friends, strangers, and her future self, releasing personal messages into public circulation.” (!!!)
\nAs a librarian, Brooks collects discarded book covers, onto which she collages diaristic<\/strong> writings, wishes<\/strong>, words of protest and resistance, and archival material. Neighbors and postal workers contribute additional markings, sometimes unintentionally, folding together author and recipent Sometimes, Brooks archives the letters in large paintings, memorializing her expressions and coming to terms with letting go.”
\n~gallery notes<\/p>\n

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\nMITSUKO BROOKS . .
\nthe pieces are double-sided, so it’s interesting how they are hung perpendicular to the wall.
\nvery cinematic. very effective. just like the life, she is trying to notate \/ always moving on.
\npretty much the ‘realist’ thing – in the whole gallery, the movement of life.<\/p>\n

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\nMITSUKO BROOKS, ARIGATO (mail to Yoshie Sakai postmarked Septemebr 20, 2020)’, 2020.
\na discarded book cover, watercolor, paper, stamps, typewriter ink
\n7-3\/4 x 4-3\/4 in.<\/p>\n

a discarded book cover !! now, that’s sustainable art, if I ever did see one. out with the old ‘vernacular’ – in with a new life . . of beauty.<\/p>\n

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\nthen a-long, comes . . Emmy !!!
\nyep, life is – but . . a dream.
\nEMMY THELANDER, SIKKEMA JENKINS, NYC. March 17, 2023.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOME PIX !! – FROM THE OPENING OF: ‘JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: UNFORGOTTEN’ . . . & ‘EVIDENCE of CIRCUMSTANCE’ – a 5 Person ‘Companion’ Show – curated by JOSEPHINE HALVORSON SIKKEMA JENKINS, CHELSEA, NYC – FRI MARCH 17, 2023 ALL PHOTOS – NANCY SMITH JOSEPHINE HALVORSON, ‘Army Heater’, 2022 acrylic gouache on panel 31 x 26 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46467"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46501,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46467\/revisions\/46501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}