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ancy Toomey Fine Art in San Francisco is holding
its fi rst exhibition of the work of Peter Halasz
through February 16. Fall into the Half Light contains
his dreamlike paintings done in the mysterious
in-betweenness of a soft twilight when visual bound-
aries begin to dissolve. Fall into the Half Light is also
the title of the latest release of his band Floodfl ower,
due to be released in March.
Brought up in La Jolla, California, where the
boundary between sea and sky can become lost
in the mist, he absorbed the qualities of aqueous
light that now permeate his painting. “There’s
a solace in those coastlines with its natural
grandeur,” he says. “Even when I was at my
lowest, I could go there and fi nd some kind
of peace. That’s what a lot of the paintings
are about.”
He continues, “Everything loses defi ni-
tion in the magic hour of twilight—the form
and shape, the reality of thingness disap-
pears. There is a certain mystic, psyche-
delic quality. There’s a triptych in the show
called No One Thing Contains Its Edge. We
know that things are spinning atoms and
there is no edge...but we experience it.”
A self-taught artist, Halasz starts rightPETER HALASZFall into the Half Light
UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / NANCY TOOMEY FINE ART
Through 2/16 San Francisco, CA1
Carapace, oil on panel,
39½ x 33"
2
Peter Halasz with
Old Roses III.
3
Portal I, oil on panel, 83 x 54"
4
No One Thing Contains Its
Edge (triptych), oil on panel,
11 x 14" (each)12