Clayton Colvin

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Clayton Colvin (born 1976) is an American abstract painter, multimedia artist, collagist, curator of contemporary art, and writer who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Education

Colvin received a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from New York University in 1999 and a Master's Degree in Art Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 2005. [1]

Colvin interned for Agnes, a photography art gallery in Birmingham, Alabama, for several summers while attending university. As an undergraduate, he interned for the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York City, New York. [2]

Art

Colvin is represented by Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, Alabama.

His 2013 exhibit at the Maus Contemporary gallery (then known as Beta Pictoris gallery) was reviewed in Art in America by Cinque Hicks. [3]

Colvin exhibited at the launch of F18 gallery in New York City, [4] and the Mobile Museum of Art [5] in 2014.

He was included in "Politics, Politics: Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape," curated by Anne Arrasmith and Peter Prinz of Space One Eleven in Birmingham. Colvin's work was part of "Contour: The Definitive Line," curated by Jon Coffelt. [6] His work is also included in the permanent collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, [7] [8] the Mobile Museum of Art, and the High Museum of Art.

Books

Colvin authored "Clayton Colvin: Space Mountain", published April 3 2012 by Maus Contemporary. The book was published to accompany his exhibition "Space Mountain" at the Maus Contemporary gallery. It contained essays by Brian Bishop, Brian Edmonds, and a poem by Ed Skoog [9] .

Notes

  1. ↑ "Clayton Colvin at beta pictoris/Maus contemporary". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  2. ↑ New abstract paintings by Birmingham artist Clayton Colvin reviewed in Birmingham's Active Culture Info Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Review of Clayton Colvin in Art of America
  4. ↑ "Clayton Colvin's Slow your Instruments Exhibit at Launch F18 in New York City". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  5. ↑ 2014 Clayton Colvin's Exhibit at the Mobile Museum of Art
  6. ↑ "Schedler Minchin Fine Art - "Contour: The Definitive Line"". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
  7. ↑ "Annual Report 2009- 2010". Birmingham Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  8. ↑ Artist Clayton Colvin returns to Mobile with exhibit titled 'Fiction' at the Eichold Gallery by Thomas B. Harrison, Press-Register
  9. ↑ Colvin, Clayton (3 April 2012). Clayton Colvin: Space Mountain. Maus Contemporary. ISBN   9781364810993.
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