Art + Design 
22 February 2022
Art + Design 
121

Peter Halley b.1953

Prison 28

1995
graphite on digitally printed paper 5 h × 7 w in (13 × 18 cm)
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $3,000
follow artist
own a similar item?
free evaluation

Signed to lower right ‘P. Halley’. Titled and dated to verso ‘Prison 28 - 1995’. LAMA would like to thank the Peter Halley studio for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
provenance: ACRIA, Unframed III, 1995 | Private Collection, Los Angeles

This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.

print

Living in Grid

Peter Halley's Prescient Architectures

Aligned with the neo-conceptual movement of the 1980s, Peter Halley builds his rigorous and sparse geometric abstractions using his own architecture of “prisons,” “cells,” and “conduits” – rectangles and rectangular groupings joined by lines. For Halley, these simple structures reference his grid-inclined predecessors like Josef Albers and, in their beginnings, presciently gestured towards a future defined by electrical systems, digital connectivity, and physical isolation. As Halley reflected, “I was consciously trying to map the space that contemporary life was turning into.”

121