Peter Alexander (artist)

Peter Alexander ( born February 27, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American painter, printmaker and architect.

Life and work

Peter Alexander studied from 1957 to 1960 at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1960 to 1962 he attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He continued his studies from 1962 to 1963 at the University of California at Berkeley, from 1963 to 1964 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and from 1964 to 1965 at the University of California at Los Angeles continues.

Peter Alexander was influenced as a painter of Light and Space Movement in California. The main theme of his painting is on the play of light and the light effects and the water and the clouds. In his pictures he processes underwater fantasies, shimmering seascapes and dark clouds with sunlight or lightning.

He had his first solo exhibition in 1968 at the Robert Elkon Gallery, New York City. In 1972 he participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Department Idea Idea / light. Alexander was awarded the prize of the National Endowment for the Arts.

His works belong to the collections of major museums, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, of the Fort Worth Art Museum, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Peter Alexander now lives in Santa Monica, California.

Literature and sources

• Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
• Documenta Archive (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X