Not one to idle away his time, David Hart spent part of his lockdown in ‘digital dialogue’ with contemporary artist Peter Halley. Emerging from New York’s East Village art scene in the 1980s, Halley is best known for his visual lexicon of prisons, cells and conduits – a style of geometric abstraction composed of rectangular shapes and vertical bars evocative of the cities urban grid – painted in Day-Glo colors and Roll-a-Tex texture paint additive. The Zoom conversations inspired Hart to create a seasonless collection that transformed Halley’s neon-colored geometric paintings into a series of illustrated looks, complete with coordinating face masks.
