Peter Alexander
born Los Angeles, California, 1939
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/]
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