Works

Biography

Peter Lodato is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1946. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Modernism have featured Peter Lodato’s work in the past.Peter Lodato’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 188 USD to 9,375 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 9,375 USD for Yellow Vessel, sold at Bonhams Los Angeles in 2016. Peter Lodato has been featured in articles for ARTFIXdaily and LA Weekly. The most recent article is The Mullin Automotive Museum Celebrates California Artists written for ARTFIXdaily in May 2016.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017 Peter Lodato ,William Turner Gallery ,Santa Monica, California, USA

2009 Peter Lodato – “Nineties ‘til Now” ,Zane Bennett Contemporary Art ,Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2012 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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 LA Abstraction: 1980-2000 ,Modernism ,San Francisco, California, USA

CrossCurrents ,William Turner Gallery ,Santa Monica, California, USA

2020 ONLINE: All Together Now ,William Turner Gallery ,Santa Monica, California, USA

Shingo Francis & Peter Lodato: Light – Space ,William Turner Gallery ,Santa Monica, California, USA

2014 Group Exhibition: Shape Shift ,William Turner Gallery ,Santa Monica, California, USA

2013 Essential ,California Museum Of Photography, UCR ,Riverside, California, USA

Texts of Critics

Apparenti geometrie di Cynthia Penna
pubblicato su Testo in mostra: “Apparenti geometrie”

Eight to Eighty di Emanuele Leone Emblema
pubblicato su Testo in catalogo

Edge of light di Robin Trento
pubblicato su Testo in catalogo: “Edge of light”

Crossing light and space di Cynthia Penna
pubblicato su Testo critico in catalogo: ‘Edge of light’

Io sono la Porta di Emanuele Leone Emblema
pubblicato su Testo critico in catalogo: “Edge of light”

Bibliography

Peter Frank, “Peter Lodato: Recent Paintings”, THE Magazine, March 2009

Christopher Miles, “Pick of the Week”, L.A.Weekly, December, 2008

Roberta Caraso, “Peter Lodato at Peter Blake: Review”, Laguna News Post, Laguna, California, March 10, 2002

Kenneth Baker, “Lodato Has Light Touch With Bands of Color”, San Francisco Chronicle’

Galleries, November 10, 2001.

James Feldman, “Peter Lodato at Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, October 14 –

December 15, 2000”, Art Issues, January/February 2001, number 66.

“Light and Hard Edges: Peter Lodato at Peter Blake Gallery”, Coast, December 2000, p.87.

“Intellect and Intuition: Watercolors by Peter Lodato at Peter Blake Gallery”, O.C. Metro,

December 14, 2000, p. 87.

Peter Frank, “Pick of the Week”, L.A.Weekly, December 8-14, 2000, p.164.

David Pagel, “Images that Resonate in the Mind’s Eye”, art review, Los Angeles Times, p.F8.

Michael Zakian, “Selected Works, 1980 – 2000” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art,

Pepperdine University, catalogue essay, 2000.

Dottie Indyke, “Peter Lodato”, New Mexican Pasi Tiempo, January 9, 1998.

Marina Walker, “Lit From Within”, Santa Barbara News, April 4, 1997.

Alsion Lee Solin, “Finding the Center”, The Independent, April 3, 1997.

Peter Clothier, “Los Angeles”, (review of exhibiton at Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery),

Art News, February 1990, p.164.

Kenneth Baker, “Peter Lodato, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art”, Art Forum, November, 1985, p. 114.

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September 1985, p.114.

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Suzanne Muchnic, “New Listing: Four Rooms with a View” (review of exhibition at Otis/Parsons),

Los Angeles Times, Calendar, February 10, 1982.

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Ralph C. Bond, “On and Off the Wall” , Artweek , March 7, 1981, p.5.

Lora Pethik Brown and Jane Cope Pence, “Nine and the Wall”, California State University,

Fullerton Art Gallery, Fullerton, California, 1981.

Flora Cater, “Peter Lodato’s Meditation at UC boulder”, Artspace: Southwestern

Contemporary Arts Quarterly, Fall, 1981, p.66.

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Christopher Knight, “A Decade of L. A. Painting Crammed into one Exhibition”, Los Angeles

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4, 1981, p. 91.

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1, 1981, p.80.

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Ruth Gribin Collection”, published in Journal: A contemporary Arts Magazine, No. 30, Vol.3,

No. 10, September – October, 1981.

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January 18 – 24, 1980.

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Fullerton Art Gallery, Fullerton, California.

“Faculty Exhibition”, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 1977.

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Part IV, pp. 6-7.

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SELECTED ART CRITICSIM BY THE ARTIST

“Michael Asher”, Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany, 1972

“Three Los Angeles Sculptors: Lloyd Hamrol, George Herms, Brauce Nauman” , catalogue

statement for exhibition at The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, September 16 –

October 24, 1975, published in Journal, A Contemporary Arts Magazine, No. 8, November-

December 1975, pp.50 – 57.

Video

The Beautiful Sublime Paintings of Lodato

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