Peter Young (artist)

Infobox Artist
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birthname = Peter Ford Young
birthdate = 1940
location = Pittsburgh, Pa
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nationality = American
field = Abstract painting
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movement = Abstract Expressionism, Post-minimalism, Lyrical Abstraction
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Peter Young, is an American painter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa in January 1940. 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 currently lives in Bisbee, Arizona.

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 important venues.

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. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/arts/design/03youn.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&adxnnl=0&adxnnlx=1186160523-0DnHOFqJ36TImHCimJRLkQ&oref=slogin, NY Times review, accessed, November 2, 2007] ]

Awards

*In 1968 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.
*In 1969 he was awarded the Theodoran Award, from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Collections

Museum of Modern Art New York City, [ [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ADE%3AI%3A5&page_number=184&template_id=6&sort_order=1 ,MoMA] ] Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C., St. Louis Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Blanton Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum

ources

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

References

External links

* [http://www.nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=36943&BioArtistIRN=22094&MnuID=2&GalID=1 National Gallery of Australia, retrieved November 2, 2007]

* [http://www.peteryoungpaintings.net Peter Young's personal website]