ARTIST STATEMENT
Hallie Maxwell is a ceramic figurative sculptor from Meridian, Idaho. Through her art she explores the shared human conditions of love and suffering by creating emotional human forms that are both realistic and abstract. She sculpts the human figure because it is the most universally recognizable and relatable form. In particular, she has a fascination with hands because they allow us to create, feel and communicate. A majority of the figures Hallie creates are from her imagination. She has studied the human form through models intensely at California Lutheran University. Going further than her training, she seeks to create faces and bodies that are entirely unique, just as each individual. Thus, there is a life to her forms that could not be expressed from being modeled after a singular human. She believes that her art is not a copy of nature, but rather the reflection of her inner self, emotions, and the hidden figures within.
EXHIBITIONS
March 2020
SENTIMENTS IN CLAY
Meridian Library District
Meridian, ID
April - May 2019
NATURAL CONDITIONS
William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art
Thousand Oaks, CA
Art Department of California Lutheran University's graduating class of 2019 Senior Show. Included artists Quinn Rosenblatt, Donaldo Lopez, Breann Carlucci, Johannah Peterson, Hallie Maxwell and Michelle Handal.
April - May 2019
THINGAMAJIG: A PRINTMAKING AND CERAMICS EXPLORATION
Kwan Fong Gallery
Thousand Oaks, CA
Curated by Donaldo Lopez, Quinn Rosenblatt and Hallie Maxwell.
April - May 2018
THINGAMAJIG: A PRINTMAKING AND CERAMICS EXPLORATION
Kwan Fong Gallery
Thousand Oaks, CA
April - May 2016
COLLECTIVE VOICES: A JURIED STUDENT ART EXHIBITION
William Rolland Gallery
Thousand Oaks, CA
August 2014
SUMMER DISCOVERY ART PROGRAM SHOW
New Wight Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
UCLA's Summer Discovery Program for High School students.
ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES
April 27, 2020
November 5, 2019
May 10, 2019
ART IN THE JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS
California Lutheran University
Thousand Oaks, CA
Art History lecture on art that was made in the Japanese Internment Camps and by Japanese American artists after internment.
November 5, 2019
JOMON POTTERY
California Lutheran University
Thousand Oaks, CA
Art History lecture on pottery made during the Jomon period, a period of Japanese Prehistory.
May 3, 2019
ARTIST TALK: NATURAL CONDITIONS
William Rolland Gallery
Thousand Oaks, CA
MEDIA
April 24th 2020
IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION
THE 180: SUREL'S PLACE
Featured on The 180 with Marcia Franklin as part of the Surel's Place Panorama Project.