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.
Colvin received a BA in Art History from New York University in 1999 and an MA Ed. in Art Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003. He received his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in painting from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL in 2005. [1]
Colvin interned for Agnes, a photography art gallery in Birmingham, AL for several summers while attending university. As an undergraduate he interned for the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York City, NY. [2]
Colvin is represented by Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, AL. His 2013 exhibit at the gallery was reviewed in Art in America by Cinque Hicks. [3] Colvin has exhibited at the launch F18 gallery in New York City, NY [4] and the Mobile Museum of Art [5] in 2014. Colvin 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] Colvin's work is included in the permanent collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, [7] [8] the Mobile Museum of Art, and the High Museum of Art
Merging painted brushstrokes with drawn marks while adding and erasing layers, Colvin finds inspiration in how we consume images, often now mediated through cell phone cameras (...) he deconstructs everyday patterns and digitization found in technology to its base shapes and colors to focus on movement and energy in works that become transcendent. " - Jennifer Jankauskas, Curator of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2018.