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332 BLEECKER STREET, STE K35, NEW YORK, NY 10014, (212) 966 5790

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 ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1990 "CHASIN' THE Blues Away," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1986 "Stormy Weather Hampton Jazzscapes," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1983 "Hampton Jazzscapes," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 "Urban Air Forms, Queens" Flushing, NY
2000-02 "Sculpture in the Park," Fort Tilden, Queens, NY
2000 "© 2000," Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
1999 "Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, 1999," Curator: Janis Conner, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
1998-99 "Urban Air Forms," New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
1998 "The Community Warehouse," Interchurch Center, New York, NY
1998 "The Raw & The Cooked," Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1996 "Burr Homestead Art Exhibition," (Juror: Sophia Gevas), Fairfield, CT
1995-96 "The Raw and The Cooked," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1995 "Lost and Found," Nabisco Gallery, East Hanover, NJ
1994 "Material Narrative," (Curator: Carlos Gutierrez-Solana), 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1993 "Twenty Years Ago Today," Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1992-93 "Challenging Utopia," Curator: Jude Schwendenwien, 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1990-91 "Cultural Anthropology: Altars and Symbols," (Curator: Ricardo Viera), 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1990 "Sculpture: New York at Notre Dame," Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
1989-90 "Pipedreams: a Collaboration," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1987 "25th Anniversary Art Department Alumni Exhibit," University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1986 "New and Noteworthy," Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1985-86 "The Living Room," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1983-84 "Then and Now, 10th Anniversary Exibition," 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1980 "Invitational," Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
1979 "Synthesis - The Part and The Whole," Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY

COMMISSIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Bank of Boston, New York Office, NY
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Ruth Levine, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Menorah Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Strook, NY
Terra's Interno, Japan
Witco Corporation, NYC

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
The New York Times, February 15, 1998, "Gaining Fulfillment Throuth the 'Recipe of Cooking Art'," by Helen A.Harrison,
The Sunday Star Ledger, June 11, 1995, "Cast off objects recycled as material for artists' works" by Ellen Watkins
Arts Magazine, October 1986, "Arts Reviews" by Gregory Galligan, p. 127
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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