Kurt Halsey

Kurt Halsey Frederiksen is an American artist who works with various media, including pencil, ink, and paint.
Early life
Kurt Halsey Frederiksen was born in Racine, Wisconsin in 1978.
He grew up an aspiring newspaper cartoonist, "obsessed with Jane's Addiction and Calvin and Hobbes." After exploring sculpture in college, he later switched to painting. "I grew up on comic strips, wanting to be a cartoonist. So the idea of black ink on white paper, something so simple and effective, is very appealing to me. So paint on canvas- you can never go wrong with that. It has history and staying power".
He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. .
"Influenced by my hopeless romantic and super sensitive mindset, I pay far too much attention to the little things in life and in the relationship between two people. In constant need of reassurance, explanation, closure, and attention, my paintings are made." - Kurt Halsey.
Education and art
After spending a single semester at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in the Fall of 1996, Halsey transferred to and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2000.
Halsey's art has been featured at exhibitions in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, Portland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Toronto, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Baltimore.
Reproductions of his work have been sold at Urban Outfitters. He has done the covers for Herbivore Magazine, ISM Quarterly, and has been featured in Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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