Peter Halley

Résumé du livre

Since the 1980s, the American artist Peter Halley (born 1953) has used geometric abstraction to explore contemporary culture. Working with a vivid palette of Day-Glo and metallic pigments, Halley's paintings diagram a social landscape marked by icons representing prisons, cells, and conduits. This catalogue examines nine of Halley's most monumental paintings spanning his career from the 1980s to the present day, highlighting his important contributions to American art and critical theory. This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Peter Halley: Big Paintings (February 6-May 31, 2015) at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut.