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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. That
same year, Peter Young painted a series of abstract paintings that were
tight clusters of primary colored dots on white fields. He also painted
a related series with secondary colored dots on white fields, and a smaller
group with gray dots on white fields. As attempts to paint light, the
paintings have a molecular nature, and are reminiscent of Seurat's pointillism.
In the case of the gray paintings and some other works of Peter Young's
there is a meditative quality. By the end of the sixties Young also painted
several series of multi-colored dot paintings. Peter Young began exhibiting
his paintings in 1966. His work was included in important group exhibitions
around the world by the late sixties. He had important solo exhibitions
in New York, Los Angeles, and Cologne, Germany. Historian Ellen Johnson
wrote a definitive article about his work that appeared as the ArtForum
cover story in April 1971. His paintings are in many important museum
and private collections.
Born in 1940, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Resides in Bisbee, Arizona since 1971 |
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