Hallelujah II

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Peter Alexander, 1939
Hallelujah II
1988

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Artist: Peter Alexander (1939) Title: Hallelujah II Year: 1988 Edition: 50, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Size: 35.5 x 23 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed and numbered by the artist PETER ALEXANDER (1939- ) Contemporary American sculptor who was a part of the Light and Space movement along with Robert Irwin and Larry Bell during the 1960s. His best-known works are sculptures constructed from translucent plastic and resin, which respond to the light of the spaces in which they are shown. Alexander started as an architect, before developing a reputation in the 1960s for creating his sculptures. More recently, he has shown himself to be a prolific painter, with many of his paintings depicting the landscape and night skyline of Los Angeles. The artist’s works are held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. ABOUT SELLER DO YOU HAVE ARTWORK TO SELL? WE ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING CONSIGNMENTS AND EXCEPTIONAL OBJECTS TO PURCHASE OUTRIGHT! Art Commerce, formerly F. Daniello Fine Art, was founded in 2002 and is based in Fairfield, Connecticut. As a purveyor of masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries, our consultancy serves the Greater New York Area and has frequently acted as an internal supplier to its leading galleries and auction houses including Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonham’s & Butterfield’s, and Phillips de Pury. The experienced staff of Art Commerce has proudly served in the development of private and public collections throughout the United States and the world including the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, the Board Of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Hellenic Museum, the National Czech & Slovak Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, amongst others. Art Commerce welcome’s all inquires including those from prospective buyers, sellers, and consignors of exceptional objects.

Creator:
Peter Alexander, 1939 (1939, American)
Creation Year:
1988
Dimensions:
Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement & Style:
Pop Art
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Fairfield, CT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU134216114702

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Peter Alexander, 1939

A bit of surfboard wax, a small Dixie cup and the sun sparked an epiphany for artist Peter Alexander and began his rise through the Light and Space movement of the 1960s. After seeing wax dry into a translucent block, Alexander chose resin as his signature medium and created sculptures that appear to be constructed out of light itself.

Alexander was born in 1939 in Los Angeles. By 1966, he had studied under Estonian-born American architect Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania and transferred to several universities before graduating with a bachelor’s and master's degree in fine art from UCLA. He explored the possibilities of resin throughout the 1960s. Many of his resin sculptures are monolithic and contemplative, with a mysterious air, as seen in his Cloud Boxes, which seem to trap miniature clouds within blocks.

Like his Light and Space contemporaries James Turrell, Larry Bell, Mary Corse and DeWain Valentine, Alexander wished to capture light in the form of an artistic environment. After exhibiting at Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles and the Robert Elkon Gallery in New York, Alexander turned to painting, drawing, lithography and polaroid photography as new ways to explore the effects of light. In his sculptures, the color changed in tone and intensity based on the light source and the position of the viewer. In his later work, Alexander’s curiosity about color informed much of his art, which combined light and hues to elicit various emotions.

He died in 2020 at the age of 81. Alexander’s art has appeared in films including Erin Brockovich, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Shopgirl. The Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Diego Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou in Paris have all exhibited his work.

On 1stDibs, find a collection of Peter Alexander’s prints and multiples.