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Peter Halley

Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley

For over 30 years, Peter Halley’s paintings, with their characteristic Day-Glo color and distinctive faux-stucco surfaces, have engaged in variations on the same closed set of geometric forms, designated by the artist as prisons, cells, and conduits — “icons that reflect the increasing geometricization of social space in the world in which we live.”

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Submitted on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 20:44

Geometry of the Absurd: Recent Paintings by Peter Halley

For over 30 years, Peter Halley’s paintings, with their characteristic Day-Glo color and distinctive faux-stucco surfaces, have engaged in variations on the same closed set of geometric forms, designated by the artist as prisons, cells, and conduits — “icons that reflect the increasing geometricization of social space in the world in which we live.”

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Submitted on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 20:43
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