Author Archives: Stephanie Jane Halmos

A friend grabbed a quick image of me at my MFA exhibition last night. It’s so very fitting…

This is a still from a new video piece, “Affecting the Blank Expression of Truly Contemporary Beauty”, 2012.

THE INFORMATION FOR THE MFA EXHIBITION IS LIVE! THE OPENING ON MAY 12TH IS SURE TO BE AN AMAZING SPECTACLE. http://ccagradthesis.com/fine-arts/  

Photos from my lecture, The Female Entertainer, given at the SPE West conference in Fall, 2011.

Still from a new video titled “Her New Fertalization”, 2012. Shot in San Francisco, CA.

This is an image that will never be printed or, essentially, considered in any critical way. I love these works…they are often the loosest, weirdest, least expected images, no matter the success of how they materialize.

AN EXCERPT FROM MY MFA THESIS:   “I sigh and settle into my fur.   I love myself when I am still.   To you this love is a cow chewing cud, planted stubbornly to the ground, eyes glazed, groans echoing, udders dripping, stinking of shit, demolishing flies, neither black nor white nor brown nor [...]

Over the past few months, I have made a habit of wiring noteworthy thoughts, names, or even simple reminders, on bright orange post-its. These little mental notes have started to accumulate on my studio wall.

A few months back I did a performance wherein I stood on a busy corner along the ocean in San Francisco and allowed pedestrians to pie me in the face. I don’t yet have the video (record) of this performance up on my site, so I thought I would post a still image here. Amazing [...]