For over twenty-five years, Peter Halley’s geometric paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls "prisons" and "cells" that reflect the increasing geometricization of social space. Inspired by New York City’s gridded urban plan and by his own isolation within it, he imagines the abstract shape as a barred prison cell connected to the outside world through electronic communication.
Peter Halley
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Peter Halley, Loveland, 2021
Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas
167.6 x 152.4 cm
66 x 60 in
Courtesy of Almine Rech, Photo: Alessandro Wang -
Peter Halley, Law of Attraction, 2021
Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas
167.6 x 152.4 cm
66 x 60 in
Courtesy of Almine Rech, Photo: Alessandro Wang -
Peter Halley, Rushed, 2021
Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas
167.6 x 152.4 cm
66 x 60 in
Courtesy of Almine Rech, Photo: Alessandro Wang -
Peter Halley, To be titled, 2016
Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas
182,88 x 195,58 cm
72 x 77 inches