Hawley Hussey and Bill Brovold have long existed parallel to each other in life, art and location. They met in the early 90's when their work was exhibited side by side in a memorable group show in San Francisco. They soon realized that, though they had never run into each other before that show, they had run in the same circles in the late 70s Pioneer Valley college days. They had never met in what was a vibrant Western Mass music and art scene that they were both involved in. From the Pioneer Valley, Bill went to NYC and Hawley went to California. In the 2000's they met again in Coney Island, Upstate New York and Orkney. From there countless trips together and seperately have taken place. They live in Coney Island and The Hudson Valley with two rescue cats Lucky Clover and Magnus Brovold who determine everyone’s schedules. In this exhibition Hawley and Bill present prints, paintings and sculpture.
BIOS:
Hawley Hussey is an artist who works between the visual arts, the written word, the performing arts and contemporary art education. She got her BFA from the University of Massachusetts in 1982 and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1999. Hawley is a founding and current art educational partner at the Park Avenue Armory (2009) and Bronx Envision Academy (2011). In 2014 Hawley launched: The HH:ArtLab, to bring contemporary art practice to young students. She runs two lab residencies for elementary to high school age students in Flatbush Brooklyn and Mott Haven South Bronx.
Hawley’s work is published, exhibited and collected internationally. Her artists books are held in prestigious collections including Yale, Harvard and Temple University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Cleveland Institute of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, National Women's Museum in the Arts and the Library of Congress. Chronogram Magazine named Hawley’s debut memoir published by Nauset Press: The Lonesome Threesome 1 of 5 books to read in September 2024. In June of 2025 the It's All Write podcast dropped It's All Write to Tell Tall Tales (on Cocktail Napkins) featuring the artist/author.
Bill Brovold Makes things, from large paintings to miniature sculptures smaller than 1" and home made instruments from found objects to logs. He has been called the musical equivalent of a Swiss Army knife – versatile, unexpected, and always handy in a creative jam. Born in 1957 in Tacoma, Washington, this guitar-slinging chameleon cut his teeth on country twang before diving headfirst into New York's no wave scene. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts in '82, Bill joined Rhys Chatham's sonic circus, kicking off a five-year guitarganza that saw him collaborating with more downtown bands than you can shake a drumstick at. Bill's been known to wrangle sounds from any instrument within arm's reach. In the mid-'90s, he formed Larval, a musical creature that crawled its way onto labels like Avant and Knitting Factory Works. When he's not busy writing, recording and performing , you will catch Bill painting on large and miniature canvas and wood surfaces as well as fabricating tiny clock sculptures from his late fathers' large collection of thousands of watch parts. Bill is a dedicated Teaching Artist who makes murals, gardens and handmade instruments with his young Sound Club classes in Brooklyn and elsewhere. From Cowboy to no wave minimalism, Bill Brovold's career is a master class in art and musical shape-shifting.
