Calhan Hale

Region: MFA Annual

 If naming something is the first step of dealing with what is not yet known, then I am interested in the inverse. In my work I explore what is possible when what is familiar becomes something other than what is initially expected. By recontextualizing imagery pulled from my surroundings via collage and painting, I play with relationships between image and object and familiarity and strangeness to subvert assumption and prompt surprise.