- Kurt Halsey
Kurt Halsey Frederiksen is an American
artist who works with various media, includingpencil ,ink , andpaint .Early life
Kurt Halsey Frederiksen was born in Racine, Wisconsin in 1978. [cite web | author=Interview with Halsey | title="Frederiksen shares honest perceptions of art, life and Milwaukee", "OnMilwaukee.com" | publisher=OnMilwaukee.com | date=January 6, 2006 | url=http://www.onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/halsey.html]
He grew up an aspiring newspaper cartoonist, "obsessed with Jane's Addiction and Calvin and Hobbes." [cite web | author=Michael Seidel | title="Kurt Halsey Frederiksen", "Herbivore Magazine" | publisher=Herbivore Clothing | month=September | year=2005 | url=http://herbivoremagazine.com] After exploring sculpture in college, later switched to painting. "I grew up on comic strips, wanting to be a cartoonist. So the idea of black ink on white paper, something so simple and effective, is very appealing to me. So paint on canvas- you can never go wrong with that. It has history and staying power". [cite web | author=Interview with Kurt Halsey by China Soul | title="Love", "ISM Quarterly" | publisher=ISM Quarterly | month=August | year=2005 | url=http://www.ismcommunity.org/magazine]
He currently resides in Portland, Oregon [cite web | author=Cisco Griffin | title="Interview with Kurt Halsey", "artstarphilly.com" | publisher=artstarphilly.com | month=January | year=2007 | url=http://artstarphilly.com/interviews/interview_halsey.html] .
"Influenced by my hopeless romantic and super sensitive mindset, I pay far too much attention to the little things in life and in the relationship between two people. In constant need of reassurance, explanation, closure, and attention, my paintings are made." - Kurt Halsey.
Education and art
After spending a single semester at the
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in the Fall of 1996, Halsey transferred to and graduated with a BFA in Painting from theMinneapolis College of Art and Design in2000 .Halsey's art has been featured at exhibitions in
Philadelphia ,San Francisco ,Los Angeles , San Jose, Portland,Chicago ,Minneapolis ,Detroit ,Toronto ,Milwaukee ,Cleveland , andBaltimore .Reproductions of his work are sold at
Urban Outfitters . His work has recently been featured in a limited edition embroidery pattern fromSublime Stitching . He has done the covers for Herbivore Magazine, ISM Quarterly, and has been featured in Hi-Fructose Magazine.Recent solo exhibitions
*"New Paintings, Drawings, and Installation," Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA. July 15th- August 3rd, 2008.
*"Kurt Halsey," Art Star, Philadelphia, PA. June 7th-July 13th, 2008.References
External links
* [http://www.kurthalsey.com/ Kurt Halsey.com]
* [http://artstarphilly.com/shop/prints_halsey.html Represented by Art Star Gallery]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/kurt_halsey/ Kurt Halsey Livejournal Community]
* [http://www.sublimestitching.com/kurthalsey.html http://www.sublimestitching.com/kurthalsey.html]
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