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“I first became interested in printmaking as an undergraduate student of art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I continued to explore in detail woodcutting and …
Halley, Peter
2002 Lithograph and screenprint Signed and numbered 31 ¾ x 31 ¾ in Edition of 100 SOLD
2002 Lithograph and screenprint Signed and numbered 31 ¾ x 31 ¾ in Edition of 100 SOLD
Peter Halley was born in New York City and received his BA from Yale University and his MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1978, remaining in New Orleans until 1980. Since 1980, Halley has lived and worked in New York.
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” – icons that reflect the increasing geometricization of social space in the world in which we live.
Halley has had one-person museum exhibitions at the Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (1991), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1992), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1992), the Des Moines Art Center (1992), the Dallas Museum of Art (1995), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997), the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (1998), the Museum Folkwang, Essen (1998), and the Butler Institute of American Art (1999).