Josephine Halvorson (born 1981) is an American contemporary painter, sculptor, and print maker based in Massachusetts.
[4] Halvorson views her scenes as "active objects," interacting with the artist and inhabiting their own field of scale, shape, and texture across her canvas.
[3] Speaking with artist Firelei Báez, Halvorson said "I’ve come to think of my practice as a collaboration between me, my materials, and the world, where the painting becomes a testament to time spent together.
[4] Paintings in Halvorson's 2017 solo exhibition As I Went Walking at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. include hand drawn tape measures and standardized units at the top of canvases.
Halvorson's first solo museum show, Slow Burn, was exhibited in 2015 at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
[10] "I was hoping it would align with certain natural features that you could almost measure — the length of the ridge of a mountain or the distance between trees,” Halvorson said of her giant measuring devices, “It is always changing based on your orientation to it.”[11] Halvorson's painting have appeared at Art Basel and Art Basel Miami beach.