Haley Josephs’ solo exhibition “Out of My Mind” featured in
@galeriemagazine as one of ‘8 Must-See Gallery Shows in March.’ Thank you to
@plasternyc for the shoutout!
“One of the most talented young figurative painters working today, Haley Josephs studied in Rome and Philadelphia before earning an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale in 2014. Creating youthful fantasies that often turn surreal, the Brooklyn-based talent doesn’t shy away from the use of bold imagery or vibrant colors. The paintings for her fourth solo show with the gallery since 2018 delve into a darker realm, where young mothers and nymphs appear to be in limbo, in a domain between life and death, in a sort of purgatory. Rendered with thin, translucent applications of paint, her emotional landscapes capture nude figures in both dreamlike and nightmarish states. Drawn completely from the artist’s wild imagination rather than from sourced imagery, Josephs’s canvases transport us to a sphere where fairies might feel at ease yet one in which most humans would yearn to escape.”