PETER HALLEY
Prints & Editions: 25 Years
Opening reception: Friday, September 6, 5:00 – 8:30pm
The artist will be present.
Exhibition continues through December 21, 2013
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 9:00-5:00; Saturday
noon-5:00pm
No admission
Opening on September 6, 2013, Carl Solway Gallery
will present a 25-year survey of the prints and editions of New York artist
Peter Halley. The exhibition will feature 33 editioned works, including
silkscreen, letterpress, and digital prints, editioned wall installations, and
low-relief sculptural editions.
The works on view provide an overview of Halley’s
wide-ranging experimentation in both traditional and digital printmaking
techniques since the 1980s.
Beginning with his early vacuum-formed relief
“Prison,” produced in 1987, and concluding with his most recent low-relief edition,
“Explosion," produced digitally with a CNC router by Carl Solway
Gallery in 2013, this show presents the first retrospective of Halley’s prints
and wall installations since his 1997 solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York.
Halley’s prints can be seen as a counterpoint to his
paintings, which are based on a hermetic, restricted visual vocabulary.
In contrast, his printmaking practice has provided him with the opportunity
to incorporate elements from the outside world including imagery from cartoons
and found graphics such as flow charts. As opposed to the rational, rectilinear
geometry of his paintings, Halley's printmaking has long focused on the image
of the explosion, beginning with 1993 silkscreen print “Exploding Cell.” Halley
is also a recognized innovator in the use of digital prints to produce
mural-sized works.
Peter Halley has executed permanent
digitally-printed mural installations for the Biblioteca Publica Jose Hierro in
Usera, Spain, in 2002, and at the Gallatin School for Individualized Study at
New York University in 2008.
PETER HALLEY
Since the mid 1980s, Peter Halley has been recognized
for his geometric paintings that reinterpret abstract art through the diagramming
of contemporary social space.
Halley came to prominence through his early
exhibitions at International with Monument in New York’s East Village in 1985
and 1986. Halley has had one-person museum exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Contemporain,
Bordeaux (1991), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1992),
the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1992), the Des Moines Art Center (1992), the
Dallas Museum of Art (1995), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997), the
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (1998), the Museum Folkwang, Essen (1998),
and the Butler Institute of American Art (1999).
Since the mid-1990s, Halley has produced
site-specific installations for exhibitions and as permanent public works.
These projects have been realized at the State University of New York, Buffalo
(1998), the city library in Usera , Spain Turin
(2003), and the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas
(2005). In 2008, he completed a large permanent installation for the Gallatin
School of Individualized Study at New York University.
Peter Halley is also a well respected teacher,
publisher, and writer. From 2002-2011, he was Director of Graduate
Studies in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art. From 1996 to
2005 he published index magazine, featuring in-depth interviews with creative
people from all fields. His writings, addressing post-structuralism,
post-modernism and the digital revolution of the 1980s have been anthologized in
Selected Essays: 1981-2001, published in 2013 by Edgewise Press. In 2001,
Halley received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for excellence in art criticism
from the College Art Association.
Born in New York City in 1953,
Halley received his B.A. from Yale University in 1975 and his M.F.A. from the
University of New Orleans in 1978. He lived in New Orleans in the latter
half of the 1970s and has lived and worked in New York City since 1980.
