This tactility speaks of emotions and feelings through a complex relationship of the physical work and our subjective perceptual experiences. Hathaway seeks to make work that is intentionally vulnerable to the relationship of changing environments, of light and space; to the fluctuating subjectivity of the viewer.  Constructing a seemingly simple visual language to communicate our complex and intuitive emotions, he takes a matter of fact approach to his handling of material, with very tangible effects. The works in the exhibition push this ideal further, with the patterns emitted in the marbling oscillating between a readymade and the appearance of a gesture. 

Halsey’s work reminds us of looking, embracing moments of contemplation and the points in which negative space becomes occupied, textured and full of colour

1980,  Buffalo, NY
2006 Hunter College New York
2002 Pratt Institute Brooklyn