"Peter Halley, who emerged in New York’s East Village art scene in the early 1980s alongside Jeff Koons and Julian Schnabel, is best known for his Day-Glo paintings of rectangular cells connected by angular conduits. While he takes inspiration from artists including Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers, and Donald Judd, Halley’s concerns are decidedly contemporary: His abstract diagrams evoke the alienation of prison cells, city living, and technology. Halley consistently works with Roll-a-Tex—an industrial, textured paint used for decoration—and applies his fluorescent hues with a roller instead of a paintbrush; there’s no sign of the artist’s hand in his finished works.”