Lisson Gallery is pleased to present a selection of paintings by Peter Joseph, the artist to have held the longest continuous association with Lisson Gallery, since its inaugural year in 1967. Over the course of his fifty-year career, Joseph was recognized for his early paintings of simple, formally symmetrical shapes in a carefully considered color palette. Joseph’s late-career paintings in this presentation, 2013-2014, highlight the artist’s experimentation with a looser structure and extend a departure from the closed boundaries of his early work.
Read moreOften inspired by nature and classical architecture, Peter Joseph approached his paintings with a consistent conceptual practice similar to that of an architect’s abstract. Joseph would start by collaging together small swatches of painted canvas before transferring the small compositions onto restaged, large-scale paintings. The works in the presentation feature angular and biomorphic shapes floating over a neutral ground, which occasionally disintegrate or collapse into semi-translucent ethereal washes.
Lisson Gallery’s East Hampton space continues its focused format featuring both influential, historical artworks and debuting new bodies of work in an experimental, intimate setting. The Peter Joseph exhibition follows solo presentations at the gallery by Lawrence Weiner, Cory Arcangel, Sean Scully, Joanna Pousette-Dart, Pedro Reyes and Shirazeh Houshiary. The gallery is open to the public each Thursday through Saturday, from 11am to 4pm, Sundays from 11 – 4pm and Wednesdays by appointment. Lisson Gallery’s East Hampton space will close for the season beginning September 19, and re-open in Spring 2023.
