Email: HallieOff@gmail.com
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(b.1990, Sacramento, CA) Trained in social practice and visual / critical studies Hallie is an artist, writer, educator, and astrologer from Sacramento, CA who was raised in the greater Chicagoland area. Their work is rooted in the radical cultural politics of DIY and Anarchist communities in Grand Rapids, MI, Ox-Bow School of Art, & Chicago who value community organizing, creative collaborations, and holistic philosophies. Today their work investigates art practices across all states of being, media, and classification to usher in a culture of care that seeks to lift up the work of all artists.

Hallie does not differentiate between “correct” and “incorrect” methods for implementing their professional work, choosing to opt for a situational and reflexive approach that responds to society's needs. Some moments call for writing, some for community organizing, some for service, and some for traditional methods like sculpture or video work. They work in clay because it offers a rich conceptual framework to explore themes of community organizing, memory, language, grounding, body, and perception.

The artist is drawn to visibilizing the complexities of lived experience that lie just outside of normative perception through abstraction, abjection, and the formation of contemporary corporeal reality in clay which is queer and deviant. Similar to the work of Hieronymus Bosch and David Altmejd, the work straddles a line between reality and fantasy questioning and problematizing the assumption of a visuality that is fixed and stable. Off leaves trace, touch, and texture to highlight what often becomes invisibilized on the body - the accumulation of experiences that shape us.

They seek to redirect the accumulation of western ideologies towards new social realities that encompass holistic inclusivity, radical care, and timelines that are built upon slow practices. They ask us to perceive ourselves as active agents in creating a holisticism that proliferates through time, knowing it doesn’t happen tomorrow or individually, but together over the duration of human existence.

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They have shown work nationally in Wisconsin, Chicago, California, and Michigan. They have attended residencies at Ceramics School in Detroit, Mendocino Art Center, and High Desert Test Sites (upcoming).

From 2020-2023, during covid, they co-led a kitchen to feed 150+ artists daily at the nation’s second oldest artist residency OxBow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI. At OxBow they co-founded a visiting artist series bringing in faculty, residents, and staff to make artworks pertaining to personal histories through the intersection of food and performance. During their tenure at Ox-Bow they founded the Hospitality & Culture Manager position to expand creative partnerships and possibilities for the organization. They also cultivated nation wide creative relationships and maintained established partnerships at Ox-Bow by co-developing annual fundraisers, residency programming, and large scale events based work in Chicago and Saugatuck, MI.

They have taught as an Adjunct Professor of Visual Studies & Critical Studies at Grand Valley State University.

At ArtPrize from 2018-2019 they co-led a team as the Public Arts Project Manager to bring large scale public art installations to the City of Grand Rapids, MI.

Hallie has also been a freelance preparator and art handler in Chicago and San Francisco handling work for artists Theaster Gates, Kerry James Marshall, and Cindy Sherman. In their personal life they enjoy reading and researching the critical theory of devalued social classes to preserve the history of cultures that are facing erasure. They also host private art / dinner events to build long lasting creative relationships within arts communities.

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A Brief On Objectification -
I am a subject maker who problematizes contemporary ideologies surrounding objects. Objectification removes the agency of things / beings to act of their own accord and desires. Objectification allows unequal extraction and control. A gaze is cast out, but not returned.
I make subjects, abstract beings, who gaze back.

A Brief on Ritualism -
coming soon

A Brief on the Circularity of Time -
coming soon

A Brief on Queerness -
coming soon