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Originally published at Exponential Nothingness. You can comment here or there.
It isn’t often that I run into two artists in such a short time. I ran into Kurt Halsey because I was looking into Amy Rice. They both do work at the Art Star Gallery, and thus I ran into Kurt’s work. At first, I was sort of ignoring his work because the cartoonish characters seemed so - well, Precious Moments. But then I clicked on a couple of them and realized I was SO very wrong. Kurt hails from Racine, Wisconsin and went to MIAD here, which means I’m pretty stoked to have come across him.
The figures in Kurt’s work have natural positions, many of which are very intimate and real - putting you into the emotion. There’s an emptiness that leaves you to fill in the feeling. Many of the pieces are collage pieces like the first one below, and the choice of media fits the pieces of thought included.
Some of them are poignant moments of love and closeness. Others are powerfully painful (see the next one below). Others seem to catch a meaningful moment - and not a moment associated with love. Some even have a wry humor that isn’t easily captured in stasis. Whatever they are, they are poetry and art.
