July 22 - August 13, 2022
From Martha’s Contemporary:
“HOT CONCRETE is an exhibition of recent paintings by Houston-born and Austin-based artist Calhan Hale. The exhibition examines temporality, meaning-making, and place via surfaces, materials, photographs, and painted collages. The artist’s Texan origins form an important biographical subtext: acknowledging that family stories, cultural myths, and hyperbole inform subconscious expectations for the moments of our lives. In an attempt to find grounding in the tangible, Hale looks to what is physically surrounding her and finds light, shadow, smoldering heat, parking spaces, freeways, and material used for construction. She calls on these materials of infrastructure along with photographs sourced from family and her own life to create paintings for the narratives we piece together for ourselves and others.”
Reception: July 22, 2022 | 6–9 pm
4115 Guadalupe Street
Austin, 78751 Texas
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