Peter Alexander's Gardena, 1988. This piece is an edition. It's an abstract work of art of a cloudy dark blue sky over a flat city lit up at night.
Gallery installation image of Peter Alexander's Gardena, 1988. This piece is an edition. It's an abstract work of art of a cloudy dark blue sky over a flat city lit up at night.
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Peter Alexander's Gardena, 1988. This piece is an edition. It's an abstract work of art of a cloudy dark blue sky over a flat city lit up at night.
Gallery installation image of Peter Alexander's Gardena, 1988. This piece is an edition. It's an abstract work of art of a cloudy dark blue sky over a flat city lit up at night.
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Peter Alexander

$7,500.00

Gardena, 1988

Lithograph in colors on Guarro paper

29.5 x 31.5 inches framed

On view at GW Contemporary

305 N Coast Highway, Laguna Beach CA

Gardena, 1988

Lithograph in colors on Guarro paper

29.5 x 31.5 inches framed

On view at GW Contemporary

305 N Coast Highway, Laguna Beach CA

  • ᐧ The piece is framed in black wood, signed by the artist and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from GW Contemporary.

    ᐧ For all inquiries, including requests for mock-ups, raw images or international shipping, please email blaise@gallery-assistant.com.

  • This work embodies everything we love in Peter Alexander’s practice: light, atmosphere, and glow. It evokes the organic beauty of Southern California at night, where city lights shimmer against dark hills and clouds drift across the sky. Alexander’s use of black, white, yellow and deep blues feels truly original, setting this landscape apart from more traditional interpretations.

    The interplay of light and darkness comes together effortlessly, creating a sense of depth that feels almost magical. For anyone from Los Angeles or Orange County, the piece stirs emotions and nostalgia, evoking the simple joy of looking out over the city from the hills at night.

    Bringing a Peter Alexander work to Orange County is truly special, adding a meaningful and elevated presence to Orange County’s evolving art scene.

About the Artist

Peter Alexander, one of California’s early Light and Space innovators, built his career around a deep fascination with how light behaves. Between 1965 and 1972, he created resin sculptures with soft, glowing color, objects that felt as though they were shaped out of light itself. By the early ’70s, he shifted toward painting, drawing, and printmaking, approaching light with a touch reminiscent of Impressionism. These works are rich with atmosphere, bathing scenes in color and the distinct qualities of sun, moon, city illumination, and shimmering water. In one particularly delightful group of drawings featuring inky black cats, Alexander even explored the idea of light disappearing entirely into plush darkness.

Alexander’s work has been widely exhibited in museum and gallery shows, including retrospectives like In This Light at the Orange County Museum of Art.

His pieces are held in major public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and more.

(American, 1939–2020)