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2024
Goldner, Liz. “Luminaries of Light: Pioneers of the California Light and Space Movement,” Visual Art Source, November.
Mosqueda, Sarah. “Honarkar Foundation shines a light on luminary artists,” Los Angeles Times, Times OC Daily Pilot, October 23.
Schrader, Adam. “There Is a Low-Key Light and Space Exhibition at LAX Airport,” ArtNet, July 3.
2023
Knight, Christopher. “Review: Two Rewarding MOCA permanent collection exhibits map L.A. art—and the museum’s limits,” Los Angeles Times, September 5.
”Lighten Up,” C Magazine, Spring 2023.
2022
Goldner, Liz. “Echoes of Perception: Peter Alexander and California Impressionism,” Art and Cake, December 30.
2021
Roth, David M. “Peter Alexander @ Brian Gross,” SquareCylinder.com, September 27.
2020
Miranda, Carolina A. “Truly a luminescent figure in art,” Los Angeles Times, May 29.
”California Light and Space artist Peter Alexander dies at 81,” Los Angeles Times, May 28.
Knight, Christopher. ”Appreciation: How artist Peter Alexander caught clouds in a box and used color to profound effect,” Los Angeles Times, May 28.
“Peter Alexander (1939-2020),” ARTFORUM, online, May 27.
2018
Bolton, Colburn. “Resin, Light and Space,” The Surfer’s Journal, October / November 2018.
Cascone, Sarah. “Editor’s Picks, Print Week Edition 21: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet, October 22, 2018.
2016
Zara, Janelle. “Critics’ Picks: Peter Alexander at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery,” ARTFORUM, Summer.
Kitnick, Alex. “Peter Alexander at Franklin Parrasch Gallery,” ARTFORUM, Summer.
Pagel, David. “Review: The Sculptures that help you to see (and feel) color in a new light,” Los Angeles Times, July 21.
2015
“Gazelli Art House explores the 1960s/70s Light and Space movement,” ArtDaily.
2014
Viladas, Pilar. “Full House,” W Magazine, June/July.
Baker, Kenneth. “By Alexander’s Lights,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 14.
2011
Friedman, Julia. “Critics’ Picks: ‘Venice in Venice’ Palazzo Contarini Dagli Scrigni,” ARTFORUM, June.
2010
Madden, Kathleen. “Critics’ Picks: New York Peter Alexander and Sarah Braman,” ARTFORUM, December.
Stillman, Nick. “The Blobs Aren’t Talking,” New York Times, July 30.
Smith, Roberta. “When Artists and Surfers Were Best Buddies,” New York Times, July 23.
Conner, Jill. “Swell,” Art in America, July.
Baron, Joan Boycoff. “West Coast Minimalism: Four New York Shows,” artcritical.com, February.
Esplund, Lance. “California Gleaming,” Wall Street Journal, January 30-31.
Viveros-Faune, Christian. ”California Sweet,” Village Voice, January 27-February 5.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Way Out West,” The New Yorker, January 25.
Pagel, David. “From the Past with Nuance,” Los Angeles Times, January 15.
Johnson, Ken. “Primary Atmospheres at David Zwirner Gallery,” New York Times, January 15.
2009
Marcellino, Elizabeth. “Alexander’s ‘Velvets and Palms’ at g169 in the Canyon,” Palisadian Post, May 28.
2008
Baker, Kenneth. “Peter Alexander at Brian Gross,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 15.
”Collect Call,” Elle Decor, March.
2007
Pagel, David. “Collective Fantasies Take Flight,” Los Angeles Times, August 31.
Frank, Peter “Still Waters and Restless Currents,” LA Weekly, August 3-9.
Panuco, Jose. “The Artist in Residence Working on Campus,” Pasadena City College Courier, March 22.
2006
Pagel, David. “Like a Plunge into Rippling Blue,” Los Angeles Times, September 15.
Riding, Alan. “Museum Apologizes for the Destruction of Two Artworks,” The New York Times, September 8
Reynolds, Christopher. “Pompidou Tries to Pick Up the Pieces,” Los Angeles Times, September 8.
Smith, Nancy Ganiard. “Diving Into Blue,” Palisadian-Post, September 7.
Reynolds, Christopher. “Museum Quality Art,” Los Angeles Times, August 7.
Reynolds, Christopher. “At Paris Exhibit, L.A. Art Is a Smash—Literally,” Los Angeles Times, August 4.
Vogel, Carol. “At the Pompidou: The Case of the Fallen Artworks,” The New York Times, August 4.
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Pagel, David. “Optically Oriented,” Los Angeles Times, July 25.
Webb, Michael. “Work, Rest, Stop,” Los Angeles Times West Magazine, June 11.
Wennerstrom, Nord. “Critics’ Picks: Los Angeles ‘Translucence’ Norton Simon Museum,” ARTFORUM, May.
2005
Johnson, Ken. “Wilder,” New York Times, May 13.
2004
Thornburg, Barbara. “Afloat in Creativity,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, December 19.
Artscene (review), September.
“The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, August 20.
Twardy, Chuck. “Two Visions Two Shows,” Las Vegas Weekly (online), August 12-18.
Baker, Kenneth. “Trachtenberg and Alexander at Gross,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 17.
Schoenkopf, Rebecca. “100 Artists See Satan Gives Lucifer the Beauty Treatment,” OC Weekly, July 16-22.
Johnson, Ken. ”Art in Review,” New York Times, April 2.
2003
“From the P.O.P. Pier to MOMA: Beginnings,” Venice Paper, February.
2002
Baker, Kenneth. “Darkness and Light in Crocker Lobby,” San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 31.
Pagel, David. “Another in a Cresting Wave of Exhibitions,” Los Angeles Times, Aug 2.
Clothier, Peter. “Reflections From a Pool,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, May 12.
Sturak, Clara. “Painting Paradise,” Santa Monica Mirror, May 8-14.
2001
Chang, Richard. “Art comes of age in L.A.,” Orange County Register, Nov. 4.
2000
McKenna, Christine. “California Dreamin’,” Los Angeles Magazine, November.
Ringwald, Lydia E.. “Two lights illuminate Peter Blake Gallery,” Laguna News-Post, July 20.
1999
Anderson, Isabel, “Peter Alexander at the Orange County Museum of Art,” Artweek, September.
Moore, Leela. “Visions of Light,” Digital Arts, Summer.
“Visual Arts: In This Light,” California Homes, Summer.
Knight, Christopher. Los Angeles Times, June 15.
Knaff, Devorah L. “One-two Punch,” The Riverside Press-Enterprise, June 13.
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, OC Weekly, June 4-10.
Walsh, Daniella. “An artist shaped by his environment,” Orange County Register, May 30.
“Peter Alexander Exhibits in Newport Beach,” ArtDaily, May 25, online.
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Translating Memories With a Light Touch,” Los Angeles Times, May 16.
1998
Davis, Phil. “Va-Va-Velvet,” Los Angeles Times, August 19.
1997
Ghonem, Zuhair. Al Liwa (review), Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 17.
Bazoun, Ahmad. As Safir (review) Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 15.
Al Kifah Al Arabi (review), Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 7.
Al Ousbouh Al Arab (review) Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 1.
Al Nahar (review), Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 1.
Khal, Helen, “Taste of L.A. Beirutis Should Respond To,” The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 11.
Ghandour, Maya. “Peter Alexander a la galerie Janine Rubeiz,” L’Orient le Jour, Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 8.
Karlstrom, Paul. ”On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art and Culture,” The Sydney Papers, Autumn.
Baker, Kennet. “Peter Alexander’s Overviews,” San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, June 10.
Tapley, George. “‘urban/sub/urban’ at Louis Stern Fine Arts,” Artweek, February.
1996
Wilson, William, “A Lore-Filled Blast from the Eternally Cool Past of the L.A. Art Scene,” Los Angeles Times, July 7.
Muchnic, Suzanne, “Hot Off the Inkjet,” Los Angeles Times, June 6.
1995
Smithsonian Archives of American Art. “Oral history interview with Peter Alexander,” with Paul Karlstrom. December 13, 1995–May 8, 1996.
Curtis, Cathy. “Surfboards Installation Goes Beneath Surface,” Los Angeles Times, November 14.
Rapko, John. “‘Landscape: A Concept’ at the California College of Arts and Crafts,” Artweek, October 19.
Roche, Harry. “Critic’s Choice; ‘Landscape: A Concept’,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 16.
”New landscapes,” San Francisco Examiner, August 16.
Martinez, Marilyn. “Downtown: Plaza ‘Puddles’ Whet Appetite for Art,” Los Angeles Times, March 5.
Donohue, Marlena. “The Zen of Art,” The Outlook, Feb. 24.
Wilson, William. “Puddles: Light, Space and Zen Beat Bard,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 24.
1994
Newhall, Edith. “Peter Alexander at Barbara Mathes,” Art News, December.
Edelman, Robert G., “Peter Alexander at Barbara Mathes,” Art in America, December.
Hodder, Monroe. “Unto Caesar: Peter Alexander at Brian Gross Fine Art,” Artweek, Oct. 20.
1993
Wilson, William. “Ten Vegas Visions,” Los Angeles Times, November 20.
1992
Wilson, William. “The Riots in Paint,” Los Angeles Times, July 29.
Curtis, Cathy. “ART: Curious Work, Showcased in Curious Way, at Laguna Museum: Peter Alexander’s ‘Century’ is a view of Los Angeles at night The is presented with unnecessary explanations,” Los Angeles Times, May 18.
1991
Scarborough, James. “Peter Alexander’s Velvet Paintings: Kitsch and Cowabunga, Not!,” Visions, Summer.
Curtis, Cathy. “Curious Work Showcased in a Curious Way,” Los Angeles Times, May 19.
Dubin, Zan. “L.A. Artist Alexander Plays with Fire,” Los Angeles Times, May 16.
Pagel, David. “Peter Alexander,”  Lapiz, June.
Littlefield, Kinney. “Artist Holds a Burning Image of L.A.,” The Orange County Register, May 10.
Schottlanger, Sherrie. “Sculpted from Light,’ Artweek, March 14.
Wilson, William. “The Powerful Plasticity of Alexander,” Los Angeles Times, February 19.
1990
Channin, Richard. “Review of Exhibitions,” Art in America, February.
1998
Hickey, Dave. “Top Ten,” ARTFORUM, December.
1989
Geer, Suvan. “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, October 27.
Quinn, Joan. “Studio Visit—They Los L.A.,” Contemporanea, January/February.
1988
Salzman, Linda Sher. “A Disregard for Formal Issues,” Artweek, August 6.
Wilson, William. “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, July 22.
1987
Wilson, William. “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, November 27.
Price, Susan. “Behind the Studio Door,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, May 24.
Tuohy, William. “L.A. Artists at Berlin Celebration,” Los Angeles Times, May 5.
Rice, William. “Feasts for the Eye,” Connoisseur, February.
1986
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Exhibit Mines Golden Land,’ Los Angeles Times, December 29.
Spalding, Jill. “Glitz Wanes, Big Waxes,” Vogue, December.
Wilson, William. “A Place for Modern Art to Hang Out,” Los Angeles Times, November 16.
Vilada, Pilar. “Introduction: What You Didn’t Know You Question,” Progressive Architecture, October.
Wilson, William. “Jungles at the Corcoran Gallery,” Los Angeles Times, June 13.
1985
Gardner, Colin. “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, October 18.
Preston, Malcolm. Review, Newsday, September 3.
Lewinson, David. “A Look At Horton’s Three Major Works of Art,” San Diego Magazine, August.
Pincus, Robert. “Art Projects for Horton Plaza Complex Are Shown,” San Diego Magazine, March 23.
1984
Ballatore-Nelson, Sandy. “Celebrating Los Angeles Art,” Images and Issues, July/August.
Soderberg, Agnets. “Peter blev miljonar part sine sonnedgangar,” Expressen Kalifornien, July 29.
Hoving, Thomas. “Our Best Artworks,” Connoisseur, July.
Wilson, William. “They Didnít Mess Up this MoMA,” Los Angeles Times, May 20.
Wilson, William. “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, March 9.
1983
Wilson, William. “Musing on an Inspired Year’s Gifts,” Los Angeles Times, December 18.
Muchnic, Suzanne. “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, December 16.
Fudge, Jane. “The Second Western States/38th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition,” Artspace, Fall.
Schipper, Merle. “Sunsets and Velvets: A Ten Year Survey,” Images and Issues, July/August.
Wilson, William. “The Poetic Moods of Peter Alexander,” Los Angeles Times, February 6.Richard, Paul. “The Range of the West,” The Washington Post, February 2.
1982
McDonald, Robert. Review, Artweek, April 3.
Norklun, Kathi. Artweek, April 3.
Wortz, Melinda. Review, Art News, March 26.
Muchnic, Suzanne. “In the Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, March 26.
Miller, Elise. “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, January 17.
“News of the Print World: People & Places.” The Print Collector’s Newsletter, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 166–69.
1981
Knight, Christopher. “Peter Alexander: James Corcoran Gallery,” ARTFORUM, November.
Knight, Christopher. “Is There A California School?,” Portfolio Magazine, September-October.
Wortz, Melinda. Review, Art News, September.
Knight, Christopher. “Light and Space,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, June 28.
Knight, Christopher. Review, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, June 28.
Wilson, William. “In the Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, June 19.
Knight, Christopher. “Artists’ Quilts,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, June.
Armstrong, Richard. Flash Art, March-April.
1980
Leites, Edmund. Review. Art in America, October.
Schipper, Merle. Art Week, May 24.
Wilson, William. “LAICA Exhibition,” Los Angeles Times, May 14.
1976
Marmer, Nancy. “‘The Sky Show’ Otis Art Gallery,” ARTFORUM, February.
Perlmutter, Elizabeth. “Clear, Cloudy and Smoggy,” Art News, January.
1975
Seldis, Henry. “Art Walk,” Los Angeles Times, November 7.
Plagens, Peter. “Pasadena, Like a Real Museum,” ARTFORUM, May.
1974
Wilson, William. “Exhibition at Jack Glenn Gallery,” Los Angeles Times, November 18.
Wilson, William. “California Art,” Domus, October.
1971
Plagens, Peter. “Five Artists: Ace Gallery,” ARTFORUM, October.Baker, E.C., “Los Angeles, 1971,” Art News, September.
Knapp, Dan. “PBS Examines the Artists,” Los Angeles Times, July 16.
Plagens, Peter. “Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman and Peter Alexander: UCLA Art Galleries,” ARTFORUM, March.
Terbell, Melinda. “Los Angeles: UCLA Art Galleries,” Arts Magazine, March.
Plagens, Peter. “West Coast Blues: A New Museum in Berkeley, A West Coast Show in Omaha…,” ARTFORUM, February.Masheck, Joseph. “California Color,” ARTFORUM, January.
Seldis, Henry J. “Four Artists in Space Exploration at UCLA Art Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, January 24.
“Peter Alexander at Elkon Gallery,” Art News, January.
Smith, Katie and William Wilkins. “Los Angeles Sculptor Peter Alexander,” Art in America.
1970
Bengston, Billy Al. “Los Angeles Artists’ Studio,” Art in America, December.
Plagens, Peter. “Los Angeles: Various Locations,” ARTFORUM, November.
Plagens, Peter. “The Sculpture of Peter Alexander,” ARTFORUM, October.
Friedman, Martin. “14 Sculptors: The Industrial Edge,” Art International, February.
Plagens, Peter. “Painting in New York, 1944–69 and West Coast, 1945–69 at Pasadena Museum of California Art,” ARTFORUM, February.
Pincus-Wittent. “Frank Lincoln Viner, Craig Kauffman, DeWain Valentine, Peter Alexander, Bruce Beasley, Robert Bassler, The Gianakos brothers and Eva Hesse at The Jewish Museum,” ARTFORUM.
January.Wasserman, Emily. “Peter Alexander: Elkon Gallery,” ARTFORUM, May.
1969
Schjeldahl, Peter. “New York Letter,” Art International, May.
Livingston, Jane. “Two Generations in L.A.,” Art in America, January–February.
1968
Livingston, Jane. Review “Plastics: L.A.,” ARTFORUM, May.
Danieli, Fidel. “Some New Los Angeles Artists,” ARTFORUM, March.

Oral Histories / Interviews
1984
Scott, Patti. Essay from edited and condensed interview.
1979
Mueller, Gaye Anne. Essay includes excerpts of May 5, 1978 interview, June.
1977
Scott, Carol. “An Interview with Peter Alexander,” Spring.
1975
Spelman, Martha. Essay compiled from edited interviews on April 30 and March 19.
Spelman, Martha. Recorded and transcribed interview, April 30.
Spelman, Martha. Recorded and transcribed interview, March 19.
1971
”Peter Alexander,” GAMBIT, KCET, Channel 28, July.
Christmas, Douglas. Recorded and transcribed interview, June.
1970
Allen, Charles R. A treatment for KCET radio program, May.

Catalogs / Monographs
Home Is Where the Art Is: Ten Years of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, editor, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, 2024.
The 1982 Cultural Exchange Between Łódź and Los Angeles, Andrzej Biernacki, editor, published by Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź 2024.
Light + Space, essay by Robin Clark, essay by Matthew Simms, essay by Peter Alexander, published by Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark; LAS, Berlin, Germany; and Koenig Books, Cologne, Germany, 2022.
Dreamland: Peter Alexander Polaroids, essay by David Company, published by Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany, 2020. 
Peter Alexander, essays by Franklin Parrasch and Alex Kitnick, published by Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, 2018.
Nocturnes: From Dusk Till Dawn, introduction by Scott A. Shields, Ph.D., published by Winfield Gallery, Carmel, California, 2017.
Side by Side, introduction by Sel Kardan and Wendy Kelman, essay by Leah Ollman, published by The Colburn School, Los Angeles, California, 2010.
Collecting California, published by Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 2009, page 84.
Peter Alexander: Resin Works 1965-2009, essays by Tim Nye and Dave Hickey, interview with Frank Gehry and Peter Alexander, published by Foundation 20 21, Nyehaus, New York, 2009.
Nepotism, published by LA Contemporary, Los Angeles, California, 2008.
100 Artists See Satan, with essay by Mike McGee, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California, 2004.
Cities of Promise: Imaging Urban California, Sarah Vure and Robert Bruegmann, published by Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, 2004.
Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art, Gordon Fuglie, published by Frye Art Museum, Seattle, 2001, page 27.
California Contemporary Art Collection 2001, The California State Senate, Sacramento, California, page 9.
Representing L.A., Gordon Fuglie, published by Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2000, pages 47-48.
Peter Alexander: In This Light, essays by Dave Hickey and Naomi Vine, published by Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, 1999.
Peter Alexander: L.A. people, introduction by Huguette Caland and Don Bachardy, published by Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon, 1997.
The Picker Art Gallery Journal 1994-1995, “A Modernist Context for California Art and A Conversation With Peter Alexander,” Paul J. Karlstrom, published by Colgate University, New York, 1995.
Peter Alexander, essay by Eve Babitz, published by Barbara Mathes Gallery, 1994.
Peter Alexander: Sculpture 1966-72, introduction by Henry T. Hopkins, essay by Sandra Starr, published by James Corcoran Gallery, 1991.
Modern Art and Popular Culture: Readings in High and Low, Kirk Varnadoe and Adam Gopnik, published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1991, page 227.
Peter Alexander Monotypes 1988–1989, introduction by Steve Afif, published by Galleria Joan Prats, 1990.Peter Alexander, introduction by Don Bachardy, published by James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1989.
Peter Alexander: A Decade of Sunsets, introduction by Christopher Knight, published by Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 1983.
Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space: Four Artists, Frederick Wight, published by UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, 1971

Books (mentions)
Conversations with Frank Gehry, Barbara Isenberg, published by Knopf, New York, 2009, pages 54, 57.
Expanding the Visual Frontier: Art and Artists of the American West, 1830-2002, Heather Fryer, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, 2002.
Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Stephanie Barron, Ilene Susan Fort, Sheri Bernstein, et.al., published by University of California Press, Berkeley, pages 295-296.
Leeteg of Tahiti: Paintings from the Villa Velour, John Turner and Greg Escalante, published by Last Gasp, San Francisco, 1999. page 20.
Contemporary Art in Southern California, Mark Johnstone, published by Craftsman House, Sydney, 1999, pages 28-31.
California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media, Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, published by Dustin Publications, Los Angeles, 1998, pages 407, 442, 443.
Paintings of California, Arnold Skolnick (editor) Illene Susan Fort (Introduction), published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993, page 114.
In Artists’ Homes: The Living Spaces of Contemporary Artists, Roberta Kimmel + Edith Newhall, published by Clarkson Potter Publishers, New York, 1992.
Art in the Eighties, Edward Smith-Lucie, Phaidon, New York, 1990, pages 90-91.
California Painters: New Work, Henry Hopkins, published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1989, pages 9,19, 20.
The Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970, Peter Plagens, 1975, published by University of California Press, Berkeley, pages 30-34.
20th Century Sculpture from the Southern California Collections, 1972, published by UCLA Art Galleries, page 78.