Future Fair: Kathie Halfin at Future Fair

DM Gallery (dmincubator gallery) welcomes you to this years Future Fair May 7th-10th at Chelsea Industrial. We are excited to present Artist Kathie Halfin's latest works at Booth U12.

Kathie Halfin is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist who works in fiber media, installation, and performance art to explore themes of identity, connection to the natural world, and the need for both collective and personal healing. Drawing from her cultural experiences living in Ukraine, Israel, and New York, she integrates her traditional weaving knowledge with an ecofeminist perspective, fostering a dialogue between humans and nature. She earned her MFA with honors in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a B.Des in Textile Design from Shenkar College in Israel.

Halfin's work engages with the sensory essence of plants and the role of touch and texture in reconnecting with the natural environment. She explores how plants adapt through sensing and touch, attracting attention through diverse colors and forms to ensure reproduction. Highlighting the sensuality of plants through abstract forms, Halfin enlarges subtle vegetal elements often overlooked, playing with their geometry and flexibility to express both the plants' characteristics and her own intuitive vision. Using sustainable materials like sisal, flax, and hand-spun paper, she creates woven sculptures inspired by her shamanic practice and the ancient art of weaving and basket-making. Her sculptural forms, reminiscent of plant shoots, flowers, and pods, reestablish a lost connection with plants. As Halfin hand-spins, she transforms processed paper into an organic form that symbolizes regeneration and healing.