Artists

Peter Joseph

Press release

British painter Peter Joseph’s 17th solo exhibition with Lisson Gallery presents a selection of early and rare works from the 1960s and ‘70s that track Joseph’s development from vividly coloured, geometric compositions and shaped canvases through to the muted rectangular and square paintings that would define the following decades of his career. Spanning the years from 1964 to 1978, the exhibition features 12 paintings, as well as previously unseen sketchbooks, which chart Joseph’s experiments with colour and form. The presentation journeys from earlier paintings that focus on vibrant primary colour and performativity – for which he received wide critical and institutional acclaim, including exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre and Kenwood House in 1966 – to his Cinema Paintings which pre-figure Joseph's signature Border paintings of the 1980s and 90s.