Peter Young
Peter Young was born Jan 2 1940 BirthPittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
Lives and works in HomeBisbee, Arizona.
Categories: Minimal Art Painting
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Young began painting seriously in 1963, and by 1967 had developed his "dot" style of painting. Despite the relatively meticulous nature of these works Young was very productive and exhibted widely; in New York at Leo Castelli and Noah Goldowsky/Richard Bellamy galleries, and at Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles and Galerie Ricke in Cologne, Germany…
Peter Young was born on 2 January 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Los Angeles. He moved to New York in 1960 to study art history at New York University and began painting full-time after he graduated in 1963. He held his first solo exhibition in 1968 at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, and in the same year he also held a solo exhibition at the Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne…
Dynaton, 1975
Young has explored the potential for organic elements in abstract painting since the early 1960s. His series of works are based on grids, circles, horizontal lines, curvilinear forms, mandalas, and most prominently, colorful dots. The seemingly rigorous geometric forms reveal a handmade quality when observed up-close the mathematical blends with the improvised, generating an unforeseen feeling of intimacy…
Peter Young in 1967, with a stunning series of star-dot paintings, merged the simplicity of minimalism with a conscious inclusion of content. The paintings simultaneously read as both deep-space night skies (stars) and dots on a canvas…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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