Calhan Hale

Calhan Hale

Paperweight, 2024
Oil on canvas
36" x 30" x 1.25"
Courtesy of the artist

Calhan Hale (b. Houston, TX) is a visual artist based in New York. She received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. She has exhibited work at Martha’s, Austin; Wrong, Marfa; Casa Lü, Mexico City; and the Wallach Art Gallery, New York and is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. She works primarily in painting and collage.

If naming something is the first step toward dealing with what is not yet known, I am interested in the inverse. My work explores what becomes possible when familiar things evade expectation and start to live independent from their associations. Re-contextualizing elements from my surroundings through painting, I play with the line between object and image in order to disrupt assumptions with surprise.