Peter Halley: A Monograph

What a prominent contemporary artist reveals about painting in the digital age—an 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 media—fluorescent colors and Roll-A-Tex, an additive used to surface suburban architecture—he debunked painting’s high art connotations. Deconstructing earl...