PRESS: 'The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons' Reviewed in 'Art and Cake'
With the majestic radiance of stained glass windows, the cosmic imagery of planetarium ceiling murals, the fractal arabesques of primordial soup, and the precise geometrical armatures of ancient architectural motifs, a suite of four cyanotypes at monumental scale by Lia Halloran — actually two cyanotypes and their corresponding 1:1 scale hand-painted negatives — are made both by and about the power of the sun.
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PRESS: 'The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons' Reviewed in Voice Magazine for Art Matters
Now my friends, brace yourselves for a “sublime cosmic phenomenon” of the exhibition by maverick, Los Angeles artist, Lia Halloran (b. 1977) at Luis De Jesus Gallery. The exhibition title, The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons, refers to photographs Halloran took during the total solar eclipse in 2017. This body of work is her homage to the sun… Saturated with blues, black and pops of color, Halloran's painting “evokes the overwhelming grandeur and luminosity of the sun.”
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VIDEO: C.O.L.A. 2021 Visual Art Fellow Feature: Lia Halloran
Lia Halloran’s largest work to date, The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons, with its layering and processes of cyanotype, photographic negatives and positives, and various mark-making, speaks to the artist’s ongoing interest in bringing scientific concepts, inventions, and experiences into a contemporary art setting.
VIDEO: Art + Science | After Dark Online
Explore the intersections of art and science through the practice of individual artists who weave science, technology, and methods of discovery in their practices.
PRESS: Black Hole Survival Guide, by Janna Levin and Artwork by Lia Halloran, Reviewed in ArtNews
“The prospect of travel into (but definitely not out of) black holes may be uncommon subject matter for artist commissions, but it makes sense in the world of Janna Levin. The author of a new book that counts as her second focused on black holes, Levin is also a professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia University as well as the founding director of the science studios at Pioneer Works, an interdisciplinary arts space in Brooklyn. It was there that she first worked closely with Lia Halloran, an artist whose painterly visions add levity and weight to a beguiling little volume titled Black Hole Survival Guide.”
PRESS: Lia Halloran Named a 2020- 2021 C.O.L.A. Master Art Fellow
As a C.O.L.A. Fellow, Halloran will be awarded a $10,000 grant to produce a new body of work that will be premiered by the City of Los Angeles in Spring 2021. The 2020/21 C.O.L.A. Master Artist Fellows in literary, performing, and visual arts are: Neel Agrawal, Noel Alumit, Edgar Arceneaux, Maura Brewer, Nao Bustamante, Jedediah, Caesar, Neha Choksi, Michael Datcher, Sarah Elgart, Lia Halloran, Phung Huynh, Farrah Karapetian, Ruben Ochoa, and Umar Rashid.
PRESS: The Strange and Powerful Objects in Our Universe
Black Hole Survival Guide, written by astrophysicist Janna Levin and illustrated by Lia Halloran (Associate Professor of Art in Wilkinson College), is a playful exploration into the structure and nature of black holes for everyone interested in learning a little more about the strange and powerful objects in our universe.
Check out the blog post in Chapman University’s The Voice of Wilkinson.
PRESS: Boston Globe Reviews 'Lost in Space in ‘Black Hole Survival Guide’'
The Boston Globe’s Joseph Peschel reviews Janna Levin’s Black Hole Survival Guide, which features artwork by Lia Halloran.
EXHIBITION: ‘SKY’
Press release of ‘SKY’, a group exhibition at ArtCenter’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, February 20 - August 30, 2020.
PRESS: ‘Alumna’s Exhibit Explores Intersection of Space and Time Through Many Disciplines’
Read Nina Young’s article in UCLA’s Daily Bruin about Lia Halloran’s work, Double Horizon, and her exhibition at ArtCenter College of Design’s Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery.
PRESS: ‘DOUBLE HORIZON’ Reviewed by Britta Cameron in Flaunt Magazine
Reviewed in Flaunt Magazine, Britta Cameron discusses Halloran’s immersive installation Double Horizon on view at ArtCenter’s Mullin Gallery.
EXHIBITION: ‘DOUBLE HORIZON’
Press release of ‘Double Horizon’, on view January 30 through March 15, 2020 at the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery on ArtCenter College of Design’s South Campus.
EXHIBITION: ‘Solar’
Solar now on view at the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York.
EXHIBITION: The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos in Art
Solar now on view at the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York.
EXHIBITION: The Same Sky Overarches Us All
ON VIEW: September 5- November 22, 2019 at the University of Maryland
Lia Halloran: The Same Sky Overarches Us All explores the lesser-known history of early women astronomers and the central role they played in modern astronomy, including the discovery and documentation of major celestial bodies.
EXHIBITION: ‘Double Horizon’ at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Press release for Double Horizon exhibition at Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, on view rom March 30th to May 4th, 2019.
Stargazers: Intersections of Contemporary Art & Astronomy
Lia Halloran’s work featured in ‘Stargazers: Intersections of Contemporary Art & Astronomy’ at Orange Coast College’s rank M. Doyle. Arts Pavilion.