Peter Lodato "Steel Room" California Minimalist Abstract Sculpture, 1989

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STEEL ROOM, 1989, steel sculpture, 8 x 8 x 8”, signed and dated.

Peter Lodato was born in 1946 in … more STEEL ROOM, 1989, steel sculpture, 8 x 8 x 8”, signed and dated.

Peter Lodato was born in 1946 in Los Angeles, California, has exhibited extensively and received significant acclaim throughout his art career. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, his art consisted of environmental works utilizing space, powerful lights, mirrors, shadows and reflections. Soon after, Lodato realized he could make a similar statement by replacing the reflected light and shadow images with paint applied directly to the walls in large flat and glossy panels of color and black and white. These works were exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1972), PS1 in New York City (1978), the Whitney Biennial (1981), and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (1985). More recently, Lodato’s work has consisted of abstract paintings and works on paper that have the same perceptual quality as his early light and space installations. Lodato’s simple compositions are concerned with positive and negative space, and the pitting of shapes against edges and margins. He mixes geometric abstraction, in the vein of Ellsworth Kelly, with investigations of defined luminosity, similar to Mark Rothko. Lodato’s reductive, divided compositions are visual confrontations between the planar simplicity of form and the resonance of particular pigments. A disciple of the Abstract Expressionist color field painter, Barnett Newman, Lodato’s sumptuously colored canvases echo Newman’s concept of using division as a way to merge different areas of the canvas into a sublime whole.
The Frederick Weisman Foundation curated an extensive solo retrospective of Lodato’s work in 2000 and his work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Peter Lodato is in numerous esteemed collections both public and private including the Brooklyn Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. Light and Space Movement, Contemporary Op Art, Contemporary Minimalist, Blurred, Striped, California Art, Oil Painting, Contemporary Art, Architecture's Effects, Geometric, 20th Century Art, Light as Subject. less