Catalogues
Biography
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.
In 2000 the Frederick Weisman Museum curated an extensive solo retrospective on the artist. Lodato’s work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the LA 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.
Exhibitions
2012
ART1307 “Edge of Light”, Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy
ART1307 “Edge of Light”, Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy
2009
Zane Bennet, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008
William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2007
Castello / Childs, Phoenix, Arizona
2005
Berman / Turner Projects, Santa Monica, California
2003
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
Bakersfield Museum, Bakersfield, California
“Peter Lodato” Modernism, San Francisco, California
“Selected works, 1980 – 2000” Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
William Turner Gallery, Venice, California
Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, Mexico
Manné Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
Special Projects – Installation Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Silver Tower” Public Art Project Brunswig Square, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California
1990
“Wrathful Means Project No. 2” Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, California
Painting, Drawing & Sculpture Hunsaker-Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“La Porta” Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
“Angeline” Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“La Lune Noire” Hunsaker-Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“La Mer” La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
1982
“Peter Lodato” Otis /Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“China” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Peter Lodato” Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, Colorado
1981
“Meditation” Art Gallery of the Sibell-Wolle Fine Arts Building, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Dust” California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
1980
“Similarity and Opposites” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1978
Special Exhibition Institute for Art and Urban Resources Special Projects Room, P.S. 1, Queens, New York
“Peter Lodato” Minneapolis College of Fine Art and Design Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Sisters” Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Peter Lodato” CARP, Roger Wong Studio, Los Angeles, California
“Peter Lodato” Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine: catalogue
“Peter Lodato” Michael Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1971
“Peter Lodato” Brand Art Center, Glendale, California