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Peter Halley in collaboration with Steph Gonzalez-Turner

PAINTING / SCULPTURE

June 2–August 18, 2024

In the electric landscape of 1980s New York City, Peter Halley liberated the square from its prior minimalist stage and set it on fire for a new generation. Using geometry to express the physical and psychological aspects of contemporary urban space in the burgeoning digital age, his dynamic and radically colored paintings introduced a bold new abstraction. Since 1995, Halley has been world-renowned for producing multimedia, site-specific installations in which he pioneered the use of wall-sized digital prints in conjunction with other elements. Most recently, his architectural installations have been exhibited at venues such as the Museo Nivola, Orani, Sardinia (2021); Greene Naftali, New York (2019); The Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Venice (2019); and Lever House, New York (2018).

For this exhibition, Peter Halley responded to ‘T’ Space’s unique use of symmetry and asymmetry. Inspired by Walter Gropius, Halley’s intervention will use planes of painted color to further articulate the existing architecture, with particular attention to exploring the composition of its apertures.

Halley’s installations have frequently served as opportunities to collaborate with other artists, designers, and architects including Lauren Clay, Matali Crasset, and Alessandro Mendini. For this installation at ‘T’ Space, he collaborated with the gifted emerging sculptor, Steph Gonzalez-Turner, to generate a stimulating dialog between three arts: painting, sculpture, and architecture. Halley and Gonzalez-Turner’s rich artistic relationship and collaboration blossomed as they worked together in Halley’s studio.

Gonzalez-Turner’s artistic practice focuses on architectural intervention. Since 2023, she has created freestanding sculptures using dyed and painted plywood parquetry, and this will be her first time exhibiting this pivotal new body of work. Gonzalez-Turner’s vertical, plywood poles resonate with the anthropomorphic presence of Giacometti’s thin, vertical figures of the 1950s.

Gonzalez-Turner’s sculptures collapse temporary elements of the built environment—improvisational structures of street level infrastructure and scaffolding, cast cloth remnants and debris—with the shapes of high-rise architecture and setbacks. They behave like models, beams, floors and textiles, existing in an architectural imaginary or hypnagogic state. Made with tactile, low-relief parquetry and assembled into faceted shapes, the sculptures are both excerpts and composites of fictitious space.

The exhibition was accompanied by a publication, featuring an interview with the artists and Steven Holl. Both Halley and Gonzalez-Turner participated in our esteemed Virtual Public Lecture Series which can be streamed here.

This project is made possible, in part, through funding from Dutchess Tourism, Inc. and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

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Biography: Peter Halley

In the electric landscape of 1980s New York City, Peter Halley (b. 1953) liberated the square from its prior minimalist stage and set it on fire for a new generation. Using geometry to express the physical and psychological aspects of contemporary urban space in the burgeoning digital age, his dynamic and radically colored paintings introduced a bold new abstraction.

Since 1995, Halley has also produced multi-media, site-specific installations in which he pioneered the use of wall-sized digital prints in conjunction with other elements. He has executed major installations at Museo Nivola, Orani, Sardinia (2021); Greene Naftali, New York (2019); The Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Venice (2019); Lever House, New York (2018); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2016); Disjecta, Portland (2012); and the Gallatin School, New York University, (2008, 2017), among others. Halley’s installations have frequently served as opportunities to collaborate with other artists, designers, and architects including Lauren Clay, Matali Crasset, and Alessandro Mendini. In this installation at T Space, he is collaborating with sculptor Stephanie Gonzalez-Turner.

Halley has also been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions including at at the Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2023); Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne Métropole (2014); Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan (1998): Museum Folkwang, Essen (1998); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997); Dallas Museum of Art (1995); CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1991); The Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1989).

His work is held in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris. From 2001 to 2011, he served as professor and director of graduate studies in painting at the Yale School of Art. He lives and works in New York.

Halley is recognized for his critical writings linking post-structuralist theory to contemporary art. His Selected Essays, 1981 – 2001, was published by Edgewise Press, New York, in 2013.

From 1996 to 2005 Halley published INDEX magazine, which focused on in-depth interviews with creative people in a variety of fields. Halley also served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale UniversitySchool of Art from 2002 to 2011.

Biography: Steph Gonzalez-Turner

Steph Gonzalez-Turner (b. 1984, Philadelphia) lives and works in New York. Gonzalez-Turner earned a MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2017 and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2022, her work was exhibited at Pace, New York, in the group exhibition Stuff, curated by Arlene Shechet, and at ArtLot, Brooklyn, as part of Sculpture Garden II.  In 2018, Gonzalez-Turner’s work was the subject of a one-person exhibition, Architrave, at Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles, organized by Kibum Kim. Her work has garnered several awards and artist residencies, including Yale University’s Helen Watson Winternitz Painting Prize and Blended Reality: Applied Research Project, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard.

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