PETERALEXANDERNEWRESIN WORKS

PETERALEXANDERNEWRESIN WORKS

PETERALEXANDERNEWRESIN WORKS

SQUARES

“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.” It’s a quote from Artforum Magazine written by Joseph Maschek, in 1971. It was a critique of an exhibit I was in with all the other boys at Pace Gallery. He took the position that there was this whole shallow, indulgent group of hip young dropout kids hanging out in Venice, California making fancy baubles for the rich. That seems to be very provincial.

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I am a direct product of water and transparency. I want to be inside the water, have the sensation of being under water.

12/22/122012, urethane

60 x 60 in.

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6/19/12 (big red square)2012, urethane

60 x 60 in.

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8/7/12 (big pink square)2012, urethane

60 x 60 in.

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7/12/12 (pink square)2012, urethane

40 x 40 in.

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7/19/12 (white with yellow square)2012, urethane

40 x 40 in.

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10/17/122012, urethane

40 x 40 in.

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10/10/122012, urethane

40 x 40 in.

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11/12/122012, urethane

40 x 40 in.

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2/24/12 (flo yellow square)2012, urethane

40 x 40 in.

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6/1/12 (blue square)2012, urethane

40 x 40 in.

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DRIPS

Like what water does on coastlines when you fly above it, from incredible color or messy color to nothing. That itself doesn’t have any great meaning to me, but on the thin edge the whole piece becomes part of a greater thing, it becomes a door into something greater, not necessarily better. It addresses the room you’re in. It wants to become a part of the room by disappearing into it.

I mean why do two blues, particularly when they look as if they’re the same, that it’s only under inspection that you realize they are not the same. Each one makes you behave differently.

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12/12/11 (large pale turquoise drip)2011, urethane46 x 41 in.

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10/16/11 (large brilliant blue drip)2011, polyester46 x 41.5 in.

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1/19/112011, polyester18.75 x 16.125 in.

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7/12/122012, urethane7.25 x 9.75 in.

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3/5/112o11, polyester25 x 13.125 in.

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12/5/11 (large flo yellow drip diptych)2011, urethaneleft: 46 x 42 in., right: 46 x 42 in.

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poppy2011, polyestertwo panels: 26.25 x 20 in.

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8/4/11 (untitled light blue diptych)2011, polyester resindiptych: 25.5 x 44 x 1 in.

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untitled2011, polyester resindiptych: 25.5 x 44 x 1 in.

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BARS

I can make any color I want and there will be another person out there who will respond to it the same way and an equal number for whom it will be nothing. If that’s the case, you choose a format and how to present the color. For example, in the boxes it was partially a carryover from what I did, the boxes don’t attract attention to the shape, what they do most is it’s a chunk of color that is specifically translucent or transparent or opaque. The bars were the same thing but less so because they echoed a standing man. They echoed me, standing up. They were thin and sort of vibrant.

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Fifty years ago I remember opening up a box of pastels, Schmincke pastels and it was layered in colors. I felt the excitement of those colors and the fact that color could be so rich and that just color could have such an effect, an emotional effect. When you looked at Payne’s grey and then the burnt sienna or then the white, you respond to it differently.

pink2009, urethane

60 x 5.25 x .75 in.

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blue bar (colbalt)2010, polyester resin

60 x 5.25 x .75 in.

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black2009, urethane

60 x 5.25 x .75 in.

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green2009, urethane

60 x 5.25 x .75 in.

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oxblood bar2010, urethane60 x 4.5 x 1.5 in.

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yellow2009, urethane

60 x 5.25 x .75 in.

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pale pink bar2010, polyester resin

60 x 5.25 x .5 in.

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teal bar2010, polyester resin

60 x 5.25 x .5 in.

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CUBES

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Learning the geometry and all that stuff, the architecture of it, but the biggest difference was that all of a sudden there was a discovery of the significance and ambiguity of color and what color can elicit. At the beginning I didn’t care about that but now I do. And this was a wonderful material for me to exercise those feelings.

Is there a perfect balance? The intention of the architecture of the molds for these works is that they all transition to nothing.

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velasco2009, cast polyester resin7.25 x 8.75 x 8.75 in.

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alma2009, cast polyester resin6.625 x 8.75 x 8.75 in.

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verona2009, cast polyester resin7.25 x 8.375 x 8.625 in.

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calada2009, cast polyester resin7 x 8.625 x 8.625 in.

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rosalind2009, cast polyester resin7.25 x 8.375 x 8.625 in.

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prado2009, cast polyester resin7 x 8.625 x 8.675 in.

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digital catalog created in conjunction with peter alexander: new resin worksopen march 7th 2013

special thanks: greneker & beto casillas for technical support

photography: brian forrest

design: kyle lamar