Qube is a collaborative installation by American artists, Peter Halley and Lauren Clay at Galerija Kula in Split. For this exhibition, Clay designed a freestanding structure to stand in the center of the space. Clay’s digitally printed marbled patterns cover the structure and floor of the gallery. Peter Halley created a series of “digital paintings” printed on gold foil to fill niches on all sides of the structure. Halley’s prints use iconic imagery of prison cells and explosions, which he has used in his paintings and prints since the 1980s.

For many years, Peter Halley has collaborated with other artists on site-specific installations for various galleries, public institutions, and private companies. In recent years, Halley has created collaborative installations with Italian architect/designer Alessandro Mendini and French designer Matali Crasset. 

Clay and Halley have collaborated on other installations, such as their large installation at Paradise City in Seoul, South Korea consisting of a large wall mural and series of monumental paintings. 

Peter Halley (1953, New York)  studied at Yale University, where he gained his BA (1975), and at the University of New Orleans (MFA, 1978). He returned to New York in 1980, where his first solo exhibition was held at International with Monument (1985). Since then he has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions for instance at the Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (1989), CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (1991), Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997) and Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan (1998). Installations have been exhibited at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (1995), the University of Buffalo, New York (1997), Museum Folkwang, Essen (1998) and Waddington Galleries (1999, 2001). His published critical writings include two collections of essays from the 1980s and 1990s. In 1996 he founded index Magazine with Bob Nickas, which he edited until 2005. Between 2002 and 2011 Halley was Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale University School of Art.
Peter Halley lives and works in New York City.

Lauren Clay lives and works in New York. Clay received her MFA in Painting from
Virginia Commonwealth University, and BFA in Painting from Savannah College of
Art and Design. Clay has had solo exhibitions at Larissa Goldston Gallery, New
York; Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta; and The Rocky Mountain College of Art and
Design. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Asya Geisberg
Gallery, New York; Sometime Salon, San Francisco; and Regina Rex Gallery, New
York. Clay’s work has been reviewed in ArtForum, The New York Times, Bomb
Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, and Art in America. Her artist book, Subtle Body, is
included in the library collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney
Museum of American Art, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art.