IAN FELICE, REBECCA HALL, RENE RICARD: INNERDISCIPLINARY
HALF GALLERY is pleased to present INNERDISCIPLINARY, Ian Felice, Rebecca Hall, Rene Ricard new exhibition.
November 8 - December 13, 2025
Innerdisciplinary is a three person show featuring Rene Ricard, Rebecca Hall and Ian Felice. The exhibition title is a playful take on the idea of interdisciplinary, since the trio of painters here each rose to acclaim in other fields of culture. The late art critic Dave Hickey once wrote that he did some of his best writing while driving on a lonely highway at night. So perhaps Rene Ricard dreamt up his best paintings while working on a new poem for “God With Revolver.” Or Rebecca Hall was ideating her next composition while filming “Peter Hujar Day.”
During a recent studio visit, Ian Felice said of “The Old Deep Wounds of the Heart,” his largest painting in this group show, “Ambiguity, that’s the key to it. Maybe it’s not a real umbrella, it’s a metaphor for shelter. And it’s okay to get wet sometimes.” Creatives who are able to shift gears into different mediums often have a deeper sense of nuance, embrace the lyricism in uncertainty. Some problems you can’t fix with words. You answer them with feelings.
Innerdisciplinary is a fun three person exhibition with a vivid sense of variety that digs deep. As you are first walking in, your eye is drawn towards Rene Ricard‘s piece plaintively pleading, “please hold me the forgotten way.” The battered ship washed ashore along with the shadowy subject sobbing in the foreground conducts a downtrodden dialog with Ian Felice‘s “The Burning of America” and that dialog immediately speaks to you upon entry.
On the south wall of the gallery, Rebecca Hall also struck up an conversation of her own with Ricard’s “Nightcrawlers,” gathering her own audience to witness their exchange. The space eventually revealed itself to be an echo chamber of honest discourse and each artist had something dynamic to say.
Rene recites poignant poetry. Hall offers transformative rhetoric. Felice delivers striking vulnerability–and it is all moderated by a concise curation that flows appealingly despite the varying aesthetics.
The exhibition’s title, Innerdisciplinary, is a clever play on words that serves as a slick hook that pulls you into a marvelous melting-pot of paradigms. The show almost sets itself up like a thoughtful joke: “A poet, a musician and a filmmaker walk into a gallery…” Except, the impact of Innerdisciplinary is far from a laughing matter. This exhibition is a celebration of artists who dare to expand their horizons, push their boundaries and “embrace the lyricism in uncertainty.”
It is proof that some creative risks are worth taking even if you are not guaranteed to reap the rewards.