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CAROLINE HALLAS
Artist's Statement, Curriculum Vitae

The area where sculpture and painting meet is the area that interests me - space illusionistic and real. My installations consist of large land/seascapes that surround the viewer. The constructions of wood and canvas and other materials painted in subtle color variations and hung on the wall create a feeling of land/seascape space and light. At the same time the sculptural elements invite people to participate in the land/seascape, to walk into it, to see the various parts separately and from different perspectives.
Just as artists have always used landscape to express moods and feelings, I try to convey my attitude toward the passage of life in the land/seascape, progressing from exuberant youth through a less sanguine womanhood.
Music, especially Blues and Jazz, inform my work, suggesting a playful way of coping with difficulties of the human heart. I try to echo this playfulness and the intuitive force of that music in my work.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

“Chasin’ the Blues Away,” 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1990
“Stormy Weather Hampton Jazzscapes,” 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1986
“Hampton Jazzscapes,” 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1983


Selected Group Exhibitions:
“Salem Art Works Sculpture Park,” Salem, NY 2007-10
“Speaking to Power,” New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ 2007-8
“Sculpture at Mathews Park,” Norwalk, CT 2005-7
“Urban Air Forms, Queens,” Flushing, NY 2002
“Sculpture in the Park,” Fort Tilden, Queens, NY 2000
“© 2000,” Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 2000
“Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, 1999,” Curator: Janis Conner, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA 1999
“Urban Air Forms,” New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ 1998-9
“The Community Warehouse,” Interchurch Center, New York, NY 1998
“The Raw & the Cooked,” Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY 1998
“Burr Homestead Art Exhibition,” Juror: Sophia Gevas, Fairfield, CT 1996
“The Raw & The Cooked,” 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1995-6
“Lost and Found,” Nabisco Gallery, Hanover, NJ 1995
“Material Narrative,” Juror: Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1994
“Twenty Years Ago Today,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 1993
“Challenging Utopia,” Curator: Jude Schwendenwein, 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1992-3
“Cultural Anthropology: Altars and Symbols,” Curator: Richard Viera, 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1990-1
“Sculpture: New York at Notre Dame,” Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 1990
“Pipedreams: A Collaboration,” 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1989-90
“25th Anniversary Art Department Alumni Exhibit,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 1987
“New and Noteworthy,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 1986
“Then and Now, 10th Anniversary Exhibition,” 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY 1983-4
“Synthesis – The Part and The Whole,” Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY 1979


Commissions and Private Collections:
Bank of Boston, New York Office, NY
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Ruth Levine, Brooklyn, NY
Menorah Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, New York, NY
Terra’s Interno, Japan
Witco Corporation, New York, NY


Articles and Reviews:

   1998 The New York Times, February 15, 1998, "Gaining Fulfillment Through the 'Recipe of Cooking Art'," by Helen A.Harrison
   1995 The Sunday Star Ledger, June 11, 1995, "Cast off objects recycled as material for artists' works" by Eileen Watkins
   1986 Arts Magazine, October 1986, "Arts Reviews" by Gregory Galligan, p. 127
   1986 Newsday, August 2, 1986, "A Melange Held Together by Quality" by Karin Lipson, Part II, p. 9


Education:
MFA, Pratt Institute
BFA, University of Connecticut
BA, Smith College



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