Peter Halley
Station
1992.
Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas.
Twice signed and dated on the reverse of the canvas. 238.8 x 238.5 cm (94 x 93.8 in).
• Bright, fluorescent colors with a large Roll-A-Tex element: an early haptic work with striking impact, executed with high technical accuracy.
• Peter Halley became famous as a representative of “Neo-Geo,” a celebrated New York art movement of the late 1980s.
• “The Hot Four: Get Ready for the Next Art Stars” was the headline of a 1986 New York Magazine article about Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Ashley Bickerton, and Meyer Vaisman.
• Other works by the artist are part of international museum collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate Gallery, London, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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The work is registered in the artist"s archive. We are grateful to the Peter Halley Studio for their kind support in cataloging this work.