Ivy Haldeman "On Human Form"
Ivy Haldeman is known for hot dog people, bananas and empty suits. When I asked her earlier this year about just the emotion of the hot dog works, she told me "I think this leaves room for the viewer to incorporate themselves in the scene, as you’re suggesting, both physically and empathetically. It's meant to be inviting, to start a conversation." She left some of the hot dog works behind in her incredibly poignant in The Agreement, The Fool, and The Storm at Ghebaly earlier in 2024, massive paintings of floating, flowing bikinis and empty suits sort giving both anominous and fleeting feel of freedom and the means to get to there. When we spoke with her, that is what she was working with: the idea of which we get to freedom, the acts of perversion of the story once we are there, and how we live with the self knowing how much of what we enjoy comes from things we cannot escape.
November 18, 2024
