biography
2010 will see Callie Art on a NYC platform in the MTA's Arts for Transit program. In 2008 she was awarded the commission to design the art for 105th Street station in the Rockaways. She chose Erskin, a glass fabricator located in Baton Rouge, to create the faceted glass and epoxy panels, three in total.
In 2009 Sweetriot announced a contest and Callie was chosen as the #10 artist by public vote. Three of Callie's designs were used on the candy tins. The tins are sold in such stores as the Whole Foods, Jet Blue, and Zabars. Sweetriot is a dynamic small company in NYC, which has just launched the world's first line of chocolate covered cacao nibs. A sweetriot is a joyful celebration of culture, diversity, and understanding — it is the opposite of a civil riot, which is dangerous, violent, and oppressing.
Callie was also interviewed for the magazine LX's Spring '09 Issue. Her article was titled "Alien Art from Inner Space: The Creature Paintings", they printed visuals of her work along with the interview.
Her oil painting, Fertility Goddess is on the cover of a new anthology out, called "(M)Othering the Nation: Constructing and Resisting National Allegories through the Maternal Body".
Editor: Lisa Bernstein. Book cover art by Callie Hirsch. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It can be purchased through Amazon.com.
In 2005 Callie's artwork was chosen for the cover and had the featured visual artist spread in Feminist Studies Journal, Fall 2005 Edition. She has also exhibited in such venues as the prestigious Pen and Brush Club in NYC, The Parrish Museum in Southampton, NY, and The Salmagundi Club Gallery, NYC.
In 2004 she took part in a show at the Aukcio-Ernst Muzeum, Hungary. That same year, she had her first experience as a set designer at La MaMa Etc., NYC for Smokin' Word's BODY WORK, playwright: Claudia Alick. Thirteen mannequins from her series, "A Tribe to Remember", were on display.
In 2001 she became an International artist by being invited to show in the Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea, in Florence, Italy.
"My concerns as an artist are twofold:the unearthing and piecing together of archetypal
forms,and the exploration of the creative process itself. My paintings are stylized pathways,
stories told through intricate designs that both intrigue and reveal. Each painting is an attempt
to recreate the power of personal identity as a living organism within the larger, evolving body
of human history. Each piece seeks to provoke reactions that in turn feed the energy that furthers
the need to create. The graceful line, intricate textures and ambiguous forms entice the viewer
into subtle, lingering experiences.
I believe that both the everyday and the sacred contain the potential to reach the archetypical
experience. To this end, I combine found objects, aboriginal textures and mythological forms.
The earliest artworks of any culture contain powerful chords that continue to resonate within
our surroundings as well as our own bodies. My paintings follow the weave of this thread
— as dots placed in rich text or as textured pathways of appear to be moving molecules. My
interest is in encouraging the viewer to merge their personal journey into the larger universal
story; to become aware of one's fit into the whole as well as the wholeness of one's being apart from
it. The paintings here represent the journey of the self in the world by means of new combinations
of color, texture, form and pattern that summon the archetypal stories which bind the human race each
to the other and across time. "
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