Halpern's paintings are a response to issues in her own life or to contemporary events. She doesn't make make thumbnail sketches or plan the work before she paints. Instead, she begins to paint and then, in order to disorient the process and to see the piece through fresh eyes, she turns the pieces upside-down on a custom-made easel. Her creative process is directed but improvisational, incorporating the use of intentional and accidental mark making. What continually surfaces are murky, dream-like scenes evoking a disjointed sense of an unpredictable world. Many pieces are large and meant to engage the viewer in both her physical and psychological worlds.
Ultimately, she aspires to create work that communicates the complex matrix of universally shared emotions yet still connects viewers with their own personal meanings.
Two Dogs and a Goat
oil paint on canvas | 34in x 34in | 2022
Smerg
oil paint on linen | 48in x 48in | 2022
Patronus II
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | 2019
My Patronus
oil paint on linen | 68in x 96in | 2019
Meeting the Anarchist
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | 2022
Canaries
oil paint on upholstery fabric | 46.5in x 59in | Summer 2021 | SOLD
Moulton Ave III
oil paint on canvas | 57in x 57in | Summer 2021
Moulton Ave II
oil paint on linen | 54in x 54in | 2021
Moulton Avenue
acrylic and oil paint on canvas | 48in x 48in | 2021
My Addictions II
oil paint on canvas mounted on panel | 48in x 48in | Winter 2022
My Addictions
oil paint on linen | 68in x 96in | Fall 2019
Strange Fruit
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | June 2020
For George Floyd
oil paint on linen | 84in x 84in | June 2020
Happy Little Bridge to Nowhere
oil paint on upholstery fabric | 48in x 48in | May 2020 | SOLD
Paradise Lost II
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | 2019
Paradise Lost
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | 2019
Misplaced Desires
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | 2011 | SOLD
End Times
76in x 76in | oil paint on linen | winter 2020
Shipwrecks and Soul Mates
oil paint on canvas | 55in x 55in | 2013
Falling In Love With Icarus
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | 2012 | SOLD
Rapanui
oil paint on linen | 55in x 55in | 2014 | SOLD
Yggdrasil (Tree of Life)
oil paint on upholstery fabric | 48 in x 60 in | Summer 2021 | SOLD
Totems in the Forest III
oil paint on canvas on panel | 41in x 60in | 2022
Totems in the Forest II
oil paint on canvas on panel | 48in x 48in | 2021
Totems in the Forest
oil paint on canvas | 54in x 54in | Fall 2021
Tristitia
oil paint on canvas with painted wood frame | 57in x 57in | Summer 2017
Fish Landscape
oil paint on linen | 48in x 48in | Spring 2017 | SOLD
Lust
oil stick on linen with wood frame | 34in x 50in | Summer 2017 | SOLD
Onwards Valhalla
oil paint on linen | 41in x 41in | Spring 2017 | SOLD
Pink Mountain
oil paint on linen | 24in x 42in | Winter 2017
Parallax
oil paint on linen | 42in x 42in | Spring 2016 | SOLD
Beyond Words
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | Summer 2016 | SOLD
Covert Serpents
oil paint on canvas | 48in x 48in | Fall 2016
Safe Passage
oil paint on linen | 55in x 55in | Fall 2016
Neurotic Excoriations
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | Fall 2016 | SOLD
Nostromos
oil paint on upholstery fabric | 53in x 71in | Spring 2016
Medusa Revisted
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | Fall 2016 | SOLD
Trigger Warning
oil paint on canvas | 48in x 48in | Fall 2015 | SOLD
The Crocodile and the Snake - Part II
oil paint on linen | 34in x 34in | 2014 | SOLD
A Prayer For Albert Woodfox
oil paint on canvas | 41in x 41in | 2014 | SOLD
The Crocodile and the Snake
oil paint on linen | 55in x 55in | 2014
Triangle Building Fire
oil paint and resin on canvas | 48in x 48in | Spring 2013 | SOLD
Uluru
oil paint on linen | 48in x 60in | 2013 | SOLD
Are You Trying To Be Dada
oil paint on linen | 76in x 76in | Spring 2012 | SOLD
I Like Myself
oil stick on linen | 38in x 48in | 2012 | SOLD
Tight Rope Walking For People With Complicated Lives
oil paint on canvas | 55in x 55in | Spring 2011 | SOLD
No Fly Zone
oil paint on linen | 48in x 48in | Spring 2011 | SOLD
Psychiatrists Painting
oil paint on linen | 48in x 48in | Spring 2011 | SOLD
The Pitfalls Of Blue-Collar Love
oil paint on linen | 55in x 55in | Fall 2011 | SOLD
Delerium
oil paint on linen | 48in x 48in | Fall 2011 | SOLD
How To Make Love Stay
oil paint on linen | 55in x 55in | Fall 2011 | SOLD
Last Judgement
oil paint on linen | 55in x 55in | Fall 2011 | SOLD
Meat Flowers
oil paint on canvas | 48in x 48in | Fall 2010 | SOLD
How To Escape From Sharks
oil paint on linen | 48in x 48in | Fall 2010 | SOLD
Cow Trap
acrylic and oil paint on canvas | 48in x 48in | Spring 2010 | SOLD
Song For A Murdered Girl
acrylic paint on canvas | 48in x 48in | Spring 2010 | SOLD
Apocalypta
oil paint on canvas | 48in x 48in | Summer 2010 | SOLD
I Still Dream Of You
acrylic paint on canvas | 48in x 48in | Spring 2010 | SOLD
White Painting
acrylic paint and pencil on canvas | 48in x 48in | Spring 2010 | SOLD
Flight of Beowulf
acrylic and oil paint on linen | 54in x 54in | Spring 2010
Vertigo
acrylic paint and oil stick on canvas | 55in x 57in | 2009 | SOLD
Watch Your Tongue
acrylic paint on canvas | 48in x 60in | 2009 | SOLD
When Good Friends Go Bad
oil stick on canvas | 36in x 36in | Spring 2008 | SOLD
333
oil stick on linen | 28in x 84in | 2008 | SOLD
Sad Superhero
oil stick on linen | 28in x 84in | 2008
Pretty
oil stick on linen | 28in x 84in | 2008
Lost Without You
oil stick on canvas | 60in x 59in | 2008 | SOLD
Michael
oil stick on canvas | 12in x 18in | 2007 | SOLD
I'm Okay
watercolor and pencil on paper | 2007 | SOLD
Afternoon With Tanguy
oil stick on canvas | 48in x 60in | 2007
What Lies Beneath
oil stick on canvas | 48in x 60in | 2006
Ashes In Autumn
oil stick on canvas | 48in x 37in | 2006 | SOLD
Home Sweet Home
oil stick on canvas | 50in x 40in | 2006 | SOLD
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