Abstractions

During the early 1960s, Halprin produced a number of abstractions which appear to derive from a very personal, experimental, and psychological space in Halprin’s life. Those who were closest to him at the time of their execution knew little or nothing about their existence. In placing these experimental works contextually, into both Halprin’s life and the history of modern art, a strong connection can be made to Halprin’s introduction to Jungian psychology in the second half of the 1950s, and postwar American Abstract Expressionism.