Peter Alexander Art
American, 1939-2020
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.
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Artist: Peter Alexander
San Blas II, Peter Alexander
By Peter Alexander, 1939
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Alexander (1939)
Title: San Blas II
Year: 1988
Edition: 75, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed...
Category
1980s Pop Art Peter Alexander Art
Materials
Lithograph
Sitka, Peter Alexander
By Peter Alexander, 1939
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Alexander (1939)
Title: Sitka
Year: 1988
Edition: 75, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed and n...
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1980s Pop Art Peter Alexander Art
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Lithograph
Hallelujah II, Peter Alexander
By Peter Alexander, 1939
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Alexander (1939)
Title: Hallelujah II
Year: 1988
Edition: 50, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Sign...
Category
1980s Pop Art Peter Alexander Art
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Lithograph
San Blas IV, Peter Alexander
By Peter Alexander, 1939
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Alexander (1939)
Title: San Blas IV
Year: 1988
Edition: 75, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Guarro paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed...
Category
1980s Pop Art Peter Alexander Art
Materials
Lithograph
Glendale VIII
By Peter Alexander, 1939
Located in Irvine, CA
This abstract monoprint by American artist Peter Alexander (1939-2022) measures 30" x 33". It was completed in 1989 and is signed, titled, dated on the lower right corner. This print...
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1980s Abstract Peter Alexander Art
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Archival Paper, Monoprint
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Peter Alexander was born in Los Angeles, California in 1939 the fourth generation of a well-to-do Southern California family that ran oil fields. He grew up in Newport Beach, where the sun and the ocean were staples. (He was surfing by the age of 13.) One of the most lasting memories of his youth was watching a meteor shower over the beach. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania under famed architect Louis Kahn (1957–60); During summers, he produced architectural drawings in the Los Angeles studio of the Modernist Richard Neutra. He continued his studies at the Architectural Association in London, England (1960–62); the University of California, Berkeley (1962–1963); the University of Southern California (1963–64); and the University of California, Los Angeles (1964–65) and (1965–66). After initially working as an architect, he rose to prominence in the 1960s with translucent resin sculptures. He has also produced paintings, including a series that depicts luminous aerial views of the city lights stretching across the Los Angeles basin. He also was commissioned to paint a large mural for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. His art has appeared in the films Erin Brockovich, Terminator 3 and Shopgirl. Craig Krull Gallery exhibited a survey of Alexander's work, including paintings and sculptures from 1970 - 2009 in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time. Alexander will be exhibited in Pacific Standard Time museum shows as well, including “Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center” organized by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, “Phenomenal: California Light and Space” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and “Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Paintings and Sculpture 1945-1970” at the The J. Paul Getty Museum His work bears a relationship to the Light & Space Movement and Minimalism artists James Turrell, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, Billy Al Bengston, Joe Novak, Laddie John Dill, Lita Albuquerque. His experiments with industrial materials, begun when he was a student at UCLA, led to the creation of ethereal sculptures...
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