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out painting on his shaped panels.
Amorphous at fi rst, fl oral and human
shapes begin to emerge as he applies
layers of glazes. “There are no visible
brushstrokes,” he explains. “I want
there to be an unmediated visual
experience of the painting, no impedi-
ment. It’s not about the marks but
about the visual experience of life.
I want it to feel like a hallucination of
actually being somewhere.”
He says, “As a kid my initial aspira-
tion was to be a writer.” He writes and
paints poetically and his music and
Floodfl ower’s videos are suggestively
layered. In the text for his exhibition
he writes, “there you will fi nd me: lost
in the wild blue skies and the ecstasy
of light, the orphic whisperings of
the dark and the twilit wonderland
between...”
Carapace is a “sort of self-portrait,”
the title referring to the body as a
vessel. In it, Halasz appears like an
apparition in a ghostly light.
Referring to the title of the exhi-
bition, Fall into the Half Light, he
suggests abandoning oneself to the
half-light, a free letting go. But he
acknowledges, “There are ominous
undertones because any loss of self
is frightening.”
Nancy Toomey Fine Art
1275 Minnesota Street • San Francisco, CA 94107 •
(415) 307-9038 • http://www.nancytoomeyfi neart.com
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