Peter Alexander

Peter Alexander grew up in Newport Beach, California, and later moved to the West Adams district of Los Angeles. After studying architecture for several years, he shifted his course to art and attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his B.A. (1964-65) and M.F.A. (1965-66) degrees.

In the mid-1960s he began creating sculptures using new artistic materials. Alexander exploited the transparent, reflective, and colorful properties of plastics and resins to make objects that respond to the particular atmospheric conditions of the rooms in which they are displayed. As with works by other artists associated with the Light and Space movement, these objects create ever-shifting experiences for the viewers who encounter them.

Alexander has held dozens of exhibitions internationally, and his work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in 1999. He is represented in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Getty Museum.

[Sources: http://peteralexander.com/ and http://www.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/people/peter-alexander/]