About

PETER HALLEY
23 JUNE – 10 SEPTEMBER

Peter Halley (1953) was born in New York. He graduated from Yale in 1975.
From the very beginning of his art career, Halley respond to the complexity and scale of the city’s urban structure, diagramming the city’s systems of movement and communication in his paintings, drawings, and Kodaliths Employing a hermetic language of geometric abstraction borrowed from the works of Kazimir Malevich, Josef Albers, and Barnett Newman, Halley transformed their utopian modernist impulse into an expression of isolation and confinement.
He developed a simple vocabulary of …