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Gallery Artists Kathy Halamka a thousand little wishes October 2009 Wishing transcends cynicism, and trumps rational thought. Every day, each of us makes countless wishes large and small, whether they are … for the traffic on the way to work to be less …for your best friend to recover from cancer… for your coffee not to spill on your new shirt…or for the newest world conflict to resolve peacefully. Add up all the wishes happening around the world at any one moment and you might find them to have a power of their own. People have always sought ways to give their wishes a physical presence. These were often infused with a sense of community and celebration, or could be intensely personal and private. With the global community, you will find wish topics online in blogs or social networks such as Facebook. Some of these can provide a sense of anonymity paired with the frankly exposed. “a thousand little wishes” were brought to life in collected fragments of text, tiny drawings and objects meant to be respectfully touched and shared as visitors traveled through the installation.	one wish mixed media, 12"x12", 2008
Postmemory Quilts April 2009 “Remembering” a past for those that came before you, and are now gone, is a postmemory construction. You imagine the moments, the impulses and the emotions but in the end they are fragments stitched together with the personal. We think of photographs as truths, but they willingly collude in the fictions we create. The unconventional elements of the photographic and the drawn in the wooden “Postmemory Quilts” are endlessly movable, as are all our autobiographical fictions and memories.	Postmemory Quilt mixed media, dimensions variable, 2008
some other rainbow April 2007 Combining my photographs and drawings with the vivid Taoist colors of ancient Korean decorative patterns and contemporary Korean manga, I fabricate a moment where the past and my present unify with some idealized future. These speculations are constructed of layered and embedded charcoal, conte pastel, cyanotypes, and photocopy transfers on birch plywood. I regularly reinvent unknown ancestors and imagine far-off descendants. Am I also then transforming their dreams and aspirations? Idealized somewhere … over some other rainbow.	Water mixed media, 30"x30", 2007
Kathy A. Halamka has been exhibiting professionally for over three decades in painting, photography and mixed media. She completed her Master of Fine Arts graduate degree at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in December 2004. Kathy maintains her studio in Boston’s South End, and teaches at Bentley University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. TOP