1940 born in Pittsburg, US
lives and works in Bisbee, US

The painterly work of Peter Young begins in the early 1960s, at the height of Minimalism. In early series of works, Young refers to the dogmas of Mimimal Art, but reacts to them with an unmistakable sense of irony. Geometrical patterns become open-worked and with closer viewing one can recognize a nonchalant and hand made quality. The artist's interest in foreign cultures, poetry as well as psychedelic experiences leads him to an individual language of form, which finds its expression in very different groups of works – most famously in the so-called «Dot Paintings».