PETER HALLEY

What a prominent contemporary artist reveals about painting in the digital agean era characterized by simulation and hyperreality. At the height of postmodernism, just as the digital world was becoming a reality, Peter Halley revitalized painting by affiliating his work with sociology and science fiction. Employing lowbrow, commercial mediafluorescent colors and Roll-A-Tex, an additive used to surface suburban architecturehe debunked paintings high art connotations. Deconstructing early- and mid-twentieth-century geometric abstractio...[Read more]