Peter Halley

Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
Sperone Westwater, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1998

"Beautiful and startling, his large, typically fluorescent images suggest that culture and commerce and everything 'man made' have been irrevocably divorced from the organic, and that geometry is not an abstract language at all so much as a blueprint for the entire manmade world that surrounds us. Where minimalist artists of previous generations often pursued profound and ethereal truths by making large monochromatic abstractions, the synthetic colors and closed geometric systems of Halley's works convey a dual effect of urban alienation and high energy, irrevocable activity." (Dan Cameron)