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Peter Halley

Peter Halley (Born 1953) is active/lives in New York, Connecticut.  Peter Halley is known for Neo-conceptual abstract painting, printmaking, teaching.

Peter Halley, (b.1953, New York City), is an American artist who came to prominence as a central figure of the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s. His paintings redeploy the language of geometric abstraction to explore the organization of social space in the digital era.
 
Since the 1980s, Halley’s lexicon includes three elements: “prisons” and “cells”, connected by “conduits”, which are used in his paintings to explore the technologically determined space and pathways that regulate daily life. Using fluorescent color and Roll-a-Tex, a commercial paint additive that provides ready made texture, Halley embraces materials that are anti-naturalistic and commercially manufactured.
 
Halley is known for his essays on art and culture, written in the 1980s and 90s, exploring themes from French critical theory and the influence of burgeoning digital technology. His Selected Essays, 1981 – 2001, was published by Edgewise Press, New York, in 2013.  Halley’   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4403 characters.]  Artist bio

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