Station Meter

Josephine Halvorson

2022

Acrylic gouache on panel

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Josephine Halvorson’s (Born 1981 in Brewster, MA) painting practice focuses on place and the careful acts of observation and transcription. Working outdoors, Halvorson selects a particular site, sets up her tools and materials, and takes in her surroundings, translating what she sees into painted marks. The resulting paintings capture the heterogeneity and brilliance of the mundane, revealing each square inch of earth to hold countless colors, shapes, and textures. Station Meter is from a body of paintings (many of which were made during the COVID-19 pandemic), centered on artistic genres of still life and memento mori , which “hove