Peter Halley United States, b. 1953
fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
64 1/8 x 64 1/8 in
Provenance
Helene Weiner, New York
(Christie’s New York, November 12, 1998, Sale 9000, Lot 45)
Private Collection, Madrid
Exhibitions
Currents: Number 7, curated by David Joselit, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MAca. September 1985
(exhibition brochure, not illustrated.)
Group exhibition (Gretchen Bender, Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Louise Lawler, Allan
McCollum, Peter Nagy) Metro Pictures, New York, 7 Dec 1985–18 Jan 1986
Post-Abstract Abstraction, curated by Eugene Schwartz, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 31 May–6 Sep 1987
Hover Culture, Metro Pictures, New York, 28 May–25 June 1988
Peter Halley: Oeuvres de 1982 à 1991, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France, 6 Dec
1991–2 Feb 1992; traveled to FAE Musée d'art contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland, 3 Apr–31 May 1992; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 23 Jun–31 Aug 1992; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 12 Sep–1 Nov 1992
Surreal versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, curated by Gianni Mercurio and Demetrio Paparoni, IVAM, Valencia, Spain, 29 Sep–11 Dec 2011
Peter Halley: The Early Paintings, Lopez de La Serna Contemporary Arts Center, Madrid, 23 Feb - 22 September 2022
Literature
Maurice Berger, Political Geometries, exh. cat. (New York: Hunter College Art Gallery, 1986), n.p., ill. (b/w)
Jeanne Siegel, “Geometry Desurfacing,” Arts Magazine, 60, no. 7 (March 1986): 30, ill. (color)
Donald Kuspit, “Young Necrophiliacs, Old Narcissists: Art About the Death of Art,” Artscribe International, no. 57
(April–May 1986): 31, ill. (color)
Ronald Jones, “Six Artists at the End of the Line: Gretchen Bender, Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Louise Lawler,
Allan McCollum, and Peter Nagy,” Arts Magazine, 60, no. 9 (May 1986): 50, ill. (b/w)
Post-Abstract Abstraction, exh. cat. (Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1987), 42, ill. (b/w)
Mary-Anne Ward, “The Post-Abstract-Abstract Strategy,” Manhattan Spotlight (August 1987): 43, ill Peter Halley: Oeuvres de 1982 à 1991, exh. cat. (Bordeaux, CAPC-musée d’Art contemporain, 1991), 39, ill. (color)
Peter Halley, exh. cat. (Pully/Lausanne, FAE-musée d’Art contemporain, 1991), 39, ill. (color)
Peter Halley, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 1991), 76, ill. (color)
Celia Montolio, “Geometrías escondidas,” Revista Internacional de Arte Lapiz, no. 88 (1992): 33, ill. (color)
Mitologie e Archetipi: Mirko, Afro, Halley, Cingolani, Fermariello, exh. cat. (Como: San Pietro in Atrio, 1996), 108, ill. (b/w)
Gerhard Finckh, Peter Halley: Bilder der 90er Jahre, exh. cat. (Essen: Museum Folkwang, 1999), 15, ill. (b/w)
Cory Reynolds (ed.), Peter Halley: Maintain Speed (New York: D.A.P., 2000), 157, ill. (b/w), 197, 199, 200, ills. (color)
Gianni Mercurio and Demetrio Paparoni, Surreal versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, exh. cat. (Valencia: IVAM, 2011), 62–63.
Demetrio Paparoni, “The Ding Yi Grid,” Specific-Abstracted: Ding Yi, exh. cat. (Shanghai: Minsheng Art Museum, 2011), 34, ill. (color)
Cara Jordan, Clément Dirié, ed., Peter Halley: Paintings of the 1980s, The Catalogue Raisonné, (Zurich: JRP | Ringier, 2019), 81, ill. (color).