Peter Young (artist)

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Peter Young
Born (1940-01-02) January 2, 1940 (age 85)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Known for Abstract painting
Movement Abstract expressionism, post-minimalism, lyrical abstraction

Peter Ford Young (born January 2, 1940) [1] is an American painter. He is primarily known for his abstract paintings that have been widely exhibited in the United States and in Europe since the 1960s. His work is associated with Minimal Art, Post-minimalism, and Lyrical Abstraction. Young has participated in more than a hundred group exhibitions and he has had more than forty solo exhibitions in important contemporary art galleries throughout his career. He lives in Bisbee, Arizona. [2]

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Career

He began his career as an abstract painter in New York City during the mid-1960s. During the 1960s and 1970s his paintings were included in two annual exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Leo Castelli Gallery among several other venues. In April 1971 his work was discussed at length and appeared on the cover in Artforum magazine, written by art historian and professor of modern art at Oberlin College, Ellen H. Johnson. [3]

During the summer and early fall of 2007 Young had a major retrospective exhibition of his paintings from the period from 1963 through 1977 at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens and at the Mitchell Algus Gallery in Chelsea in New York City. [4]

Awards

Collections

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Young is featured in the 2016 documentary about Andy Warhol's work, Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off) .

Sources

Peter Young, Paintings 1963-1980, copyright the Parc Foundation 2007, ISBN   978-1-931885-68-3

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