Jessica Halonen: Everyday Relics
Eagle Harbor Social Aid & Pleasure Club 181 W. North St., Eagle Harbor, Michigan 49950
The Eagle Harbor Social Aid and Pleasure Club in Eagle Harbor, Michigan, will open its second art show of the season with “Jessica Halonen: Everyday Relics,” on Friday, July 28, 2017, from 6 to 8 p.m. Music will be provided during the opening by Finnaire with accordion player Raimo Juntunen-Hewlett. The show will remain up until after Labor Day Weekend.
Her meticulously constructed works will complement and comment on the many items that have been part of the store’s collection for over 100 years. Halonen has explored topics such as genetic engineering in the pharmaceutical industry and, most recently, the physiological and metaphorical implications of the color blue. Her research-based work has been widely exhibited and was recently reviewed in Artforum magazine.
A Michigan native, Jessica Halonen was born and raised in Milford and spent her childhood summers on the family farm in Rudyard. She currently lives and works in Austin & San Antonio. Halonen combines sculpture and painting to create idiosyncratic objects that explore the intersection between art and science. She received a MFA in Painting from Washington University in Saint Louis and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire; Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin; and Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Her work has been exhibited widely, notably at The Contemporary Austin, Fort Worth Contemporary, the McNay Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Museum of South Texas, Fort Wayne Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Halonen is an associate professor of art in the Department of Art and Art History at Trinity University in San Antonio.