Starting from the early 1970's and running right through his inclusion in the 1981 Whitney Biennial, Peter Lodato's work with light and color in environments received acclaim. Along with other renowned Los Angeles-based artists, he was then elaborating on what would be later heralded as a West Coast school of perceptual art practices. Loosely confederated through these practices, this group of artists made reference to the technical tenets of a minimal or reductive painting, but they banked it off of the atmospheric absorption in California light and sky.
Starting from the early 1970's and running right through his inclusion in the 1981 Whitney Biennial, Peter Lodato's work with light and color in environments received acclaim. Along with other renowned Los Angeles-based artists, he was then elabor...