Peter Young (painter)
Peter Ford Young (born January 2, 1940 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania USA ; lives in Bisbee , Arizona ) is an American contemporary painter . He is best known for his abstract paintings in the styles of minimalism , post-minimalism and lyrical abstraction .
life and work
Peter Young studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, California in 1957, at Pomona College Claremont in California from 1958 to 1960, at the Art Students League of New York in 1960 and at New York University from 1961 to 1963 .
Peter Young has exhibited abstract paintings in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe since the 1960s. He had his first solo exhibitions in 1968 in the Ricke Gallery in Kassel ( DOT (white ground) ) and in the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles ( CURVILINEAR ).
During the 1960s and 1970s, he had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and participated in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art , the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City, and other major venues.
His painterly work began in the mid-1960s and is based on the formal principles of Minimal Art. His early works are still based on basic geometric structures. He painted in strict grids, which he often broke through with improvisations. Later he replaced his grid structures and painted circles and freer forms.
The experiences and impressions of his trips to Mexico , Morocco and Spain are also reflected in some series of works. Best known are Peter Young's so-called " Dot Paintings ". which he also calls " Psychedelic Paintings ". He paints intensely colored and densely composed circle and point formations that replace the geometry. Many of the pictures from the late 1960s show visions that Young had experienced under the influence of psychedelic hallucinogens .
From 1972 he created his " Rorschach Paintings ". He folded the canvases and, using the imprints of the still wet paints, created paintings that are reminiscent of Rorschach test pictures. He later condensed these paintings into symmetrical, kaleidoscopic figurations, which he called " Mandala Paintings ".
Peter Young took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Individual Mythologies department with some pictures .
In 2007 he had a major retrospective of his paintings from 1963 to 1977 at the PS 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens and the Mitchell Gallery in Chelsea, New York City. In 2012, Peter Young showed his 'Capitalist Masterpieces' in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona.
His paintings are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC , St. Louis Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum , Blanton Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and other museums and collections worldwide. In 1999 he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Grant and in 1969 the Theodoran Award from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today. Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1 (material); Volume 2 (list of exhibits). Kassel 1972.
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972. Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Young, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Young, Peter Ford (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsburgh |