Peter Alexander Past Feb 11 – Mar 19, 2022 New York Exhibition Details:Peter AlexanderFeb 11 – Mar 19, 2022Gallery:540 West 25th StreetNew YorkConnect: (opens in a new window) @pacegalleryPressPress ReleaseAbove: Installation view, Peter Alexander, February 11 – March 19, 2022, Pace Gallery, New York © Peter Alexander Pace Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of pioneering Light and Space artist Peter Alexander’s works. This exhibition will feature works created by the artist from 2011 to 2020. This is the first presentation of Alexander’s recent works since his passing in 2020 and his first solo exhibition at Pace Gallery. His work has previously been featured at Pace’s galleries in Seoul and Hong Kong and at Lightness of Being, a dedicated presentation to Light and Space artists at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2018.Alexander, born in Los Angeles in 1939, rose to great prominence in the 1960s with his cast polyester resin sculptures. Having nurtured a lifelong love of surfing, he used resin to fix his boards for many years. Alexander’s decision to utilize resin as an artistic material in the early 1960s was something of an epiphany. He had poured the material into a Dixie Cup to seal his surfboard, but found that over time the resin hardened into a translucent circle. This realization heralded the creation of Alexander’s iconic polyester resin sculptures that would position him as a key figure in the Los Angeles art scene and a vanguard of the California Light and Space movement.Throughout his career, Alexander found inspiration for his art through a multitude of sources, including the landscape of his native California, geometry, the phenomenological effects of color and light, and perspectival nuance. His work has been likened to that of Pace artists such as James Turrell, Mary Corse, and Robert Irwin. He maintained a deep interest in the work of Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, particularly his ability to embed his works with “that certain quality of light, that quality of being under water.” Mark Rothko’s approach to color and mark making also served as a cornerstone for Alexander’s practice, and he once said, “I’ve always loved Rothko and the sensibility [within the edges he creates], so I decided to cast objects that had those kinds of edges that disappeared.”This surplus of inspiration manifested itself into the translucently meditative sculptures for which he remains best known. In addition to sculpture, Alexander’s practice also spanned painting, drawing, lithography, and polaroid photography. When examining his work in these alternate mediums, the artist’s attentiveness to color becomes incredibly evident. In a 1971 interview, Alexander said, “Part of the concern that I have with color is that a very slight varying color could alter how you felt about it or you felt toward it or the kind of vibrations it sent off.”Highlights in Pace’s presentation include the dynamic freestanding sculpture 9/22/17 Jet Black Needle (2017); the expansive and vibrant wall work Heard it Through the Grapevine (2019), rendered at a rare scale for the artist; and a group of translucent and ethereal sculptures rendered in block, box, and wedge forms.Over the course of his career, Alexander showed his work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Diego Museum of Art, California; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and other international institutions. His work can be found in many of these collections as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, California; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; and other major museums.Concurrent to this presentation, Alexander’s work is included in Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this exhibition explores the art of Light and Space and is on view through March 20, 2022. His work is also highlighted in Light & Space—a group exhibition focused on the Light and Space movement— at Copenhagen Contemporary through September 4, 2022. Read More Featured Works Peter Alexander, Knock on Wood, 2020, urethane, 77" × 6-1/2" (195.6 cm × 16.5 cm), 5 units, each 75" × 4" (190.5 cm × 10.2 cm), 2 units, each 77" × 52-1/2" × 1-1/2" (195.6 cm × 133.4 cm × 3.8 cm), overall installed Learn More Close modal Peter Alexander Knock on Wood 2020 urethane 77" × 6-1/2" (195.6 cm × 16.5 cm), 5 units, each 75" × 4" (190.5 cm × 10.2 cm), 2 units, each 77" × 52-1/2" × 1-1/2" (195.6 cm × 133.4 cm × 3.8 cm), overall installed Inquire How can we reach you? 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First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Primary Country of Residence * Afghanistan Åland Islands Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Asia/Pacific Region Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Caribbean Netherlands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Europe Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern and Antarctic Lands Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard Island and McDonald Islands Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia (FYROM) Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island North Korea Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Islands Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Réunion Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Barthélemy Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Svalbard and Jan Mayen Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu U.S. Virgin Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States United States Minor Outlying Islands Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Wallis and Futuna Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Installation Views 1/15 2/15 3/15 4/15 5/15 6/15 7/15 8/15 9/15 10/15 11/15 12/15 13/15 14/15 15/15 Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Carousel slide 5 Carousel slide 6 Carousel slide 7 Carousel slide 8 Carousel slide 9 Carousel slide 10 Carousel slide 11 Carousel slide 12 Carousel slide 13 Carousel slide 14 About the ArtistPeter Alexander is recognized for his multidisciplinary practice through which he explored light and color. Alexander rose to artistic prominence in the 1960s, cementing himself as a key figure in California's Light and Space movement. Over the course of his six-decade career, Alexander became a master of creating, bending, and manipulating light while bringing the viewer into the realm of the object itself. Read More Journal View All Films Arne Glimcher on Louise Nevelson's Experimental Late Works Jan 31, 2025 Films Acaye Kerunen on "Neena, aan uthii" Jan 28, 2025 News Announcing Our New Space in Berlin Jan 27, 2025 News Supporting Los Angeles Wildfire Relief Efforts Jan 23, 2025 Overview Featured Works Installation Views About the Artist Journal