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Mirror, Mirror

Peter Halley

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Artwork details

Artist
Peter Halley
Title
Mirror, Mirror
Description

Screenprint and UV ink on glass mirror with a custom walnut frame designed by the artist.

Signed and numbered by the artist on the back.

Mirror, Mirror, 2025, is inspired by 17th-century European stumpwork mirrors, in which complex embroidered allegories were incorporated into the mirror’s border.

In this edition, Halley combines his long-standing interest in digital printing techniques with historical design and architecture.

In Mirror, Mirror, Halley’s border incorporates the repeated image of a cartoon-like explosion – a motif that the artist first began to use in the early 1990s. Here it is digitally printed directly on the mirror’s border, yielding a kaleidoscopic frame of brilliant color. The mirror itself has been coated with a silkscreened layer of translucent lavender, blurring the viewer’s reflection, creating a ghostly effect inspired by the otherworldly reflection of the king and queen in the mirror in Velázquez’s Las Meninas.

Date
2025
Medium
Mixed Media
Edition
50
Signature
Signed
Dimensions
81,3 x 66 x 5,1 cm
Status
Available
Price
$8,000.00
The Artist

Peter Halley

Peter Halley, from New York City, produces large scale artwork that explores the worlds of geometry and colour. He works primarily in paint, though he is also recognised for printmaking. He likes to work with Day-Glo acrylic colours. As a child, Halley attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, a school known for its innovative art program. He then went on to study Art History at Yale, and after graduating enrolled in the University of New Orleans MFA program, which he completed in 1978.

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