For over a decade, Peter Halley has painted abstractions that suggest the angular and rigid geometries of structures as diverse as prison cells and computer chips.
For over a decade Peter Halley has painted abstractions that suggest the angular and rigid geometries of structures as diverse as prison cells and computer chips…
Squares and stripes in this painting refer to earlier modernist abstract artists such as Josef Albers and Frank Stella. But Halley’s use of motifs such as rectilinear forms (‘cells’), barred windows (an allusion to prisons)…