Gina Halstead

drawing and painting

web : www.ginahalstead.com
email : ginahalstead@comcast.net

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statement

I love to draw. I love color. And I love texture. Working with charcoal has always been so freeing: I can move the image around on the paper, blur it, bring it back into focus, erase it, darken its edges so it jumps back out at you. Not wanting to give up the line, I work with oil sticks so I can draw with color, saturated color, that I can layer over graphite, layer over itself, and work into a wonderfully textured surface. I work with everything that is around me: people, places, travels, thoughts, images that appear out of nowhere and find their way into my paintings.

recent exhibitions

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, InsideOut show, 2008
Sacramento Street Gallery, Small Works show, 2007
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, December Sale show, 2007
The Gallery at Club Passim, two-person show, 2006
Somerville City Hall, group show, 2005
Willoughby & Baltic Gallery, group show, 2004
Maven Gallery, two-person show, 2004
Sacramento Street Gallery, solo show, 2004
Frankenthaler Gallery, two-person show, 2003
Story Street Gallery, two-person show, 2003