NOVEMBER 7, 2023 – JANUARY 3, 2024

Opening Reception with the Artist
Tuesday, November 7, 5 - 7PM

SOCO Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of All These Too, a solo exhibition by artist Halsey Hathaway. The gallery will host a public opening reception with the artist on November 7th from 5 - 7 PM.  This will be the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.

Hathaway's use of recurring lines and overlapping shapes construct the armatures for unique color spaces. The paintings engage directly with our fundamental perceptual experiences – how they inform our subconscious responses and, in turn, how our subconscious informs our interaction with the work. This  fluid back and forth dialogue is ever evolving and constantly changes. The paintings’ structure is defined by intersecting, curvilinear shapes filled with both stained and densely painted acrylic. The stain on raw canvas absorbs directly into the surface, both matte and permeable. These ethereal spaces work in conjunction with thick and brushy acrylic forms which sit on the surface. Hathaway composes a painting in which repetition and change overlap: though the intersecting shapes are all curvilinear, none of them seem to repeat. (John Yau, Hyperallergic, 2021)

In All These Too, the form and color of the new paintings are more fluid while also more graphic, resulting in works which are challenging and complex.  While initially the paintings seem rigid in their process, the continuously evolving visual language of Hathaway's work often commands the artist to interrupt his own anticipated colors and structures.  Throughout the painting process, he finds ways to pivot and reorganize the pictorial space through the painting's interstices.  By bringing these forms to the foreground, Hathaway draws attention not only to the structures he composes, but also the important moments that fall in between.  The bold palettes that Hathaway employs  – rich and often unexpected colors – are even more saturated, exciting explorations that vibrate and pulse through the compositions. 

All These Too is a nod to avant garde composer and sonic artist William Basinski’s track All These Too, I, I Love from his album Lamentations (2020), which employs a repeating and disintegrating loop of an operatic sample.

Halsey Hathaway (American, B. 1980)

Halsey Hathaway (American, b. 1980) has been making this body of work for over a decade, and has exhibited throughout North and Central America. He received his BFA from the Pratt Institute of Art & Design (2002) and his MFA from Hunter College (2006). Recent exhibitions include Xxijra Hii, London, UK (2021), Kristen Lorello, New York,  NY (2021), SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2020) and SOCO Gallery at their project space in New York City (2022).  He was included in the exhibition PaintersNYC at Paramo Galleria, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (2016) which then traveled to Museo de los Pintores Oaxaquenos, Oaxaca, Mexico as well as Site/Displace at Kristen Lorello, New York, NY (2014); Drawings, Denny Gallery, New York, NY (2013); New Paintings, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY (2012) and Line and Plane,  McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY (2012) as well as three solo exhibitions at Rawson Projects, New York, NY. Hathaway has been awarded the Tony Smith Award from Hunter College and was a fellow in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Hathaway lives and works in New York City.