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Charles Mayton (born 1974, Florida) is a New York-based painter.[1] His work combines painterly abstraction with the iconography of digital media. Mayton’s visual strategies of appropriation and détournement have been compared to the appropriation art of the Pictures Generation.[2]

Early life and career[edit]

Mayton was born in 1974 in Florida.[1] He studied at the Ringling College of Art and Design, and received his Masters of Fine Arts from Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College in 2007.[1]

Work[edit]

Mayton mimics the digital aesthetics of off-register printing, computer-aided design, and social media graphics by hand.[2] These graphics are often juxtaposed with brushy color fields.[2]

Punctuation symbols also occasion Mayton’s work, especially question- and quotation marks.[3] Mayton "quotes" the motifs, palettes, and titles of canonical painters such as Belgian surrealist René Magritte.[4]

His first solo show, The Difficult Crossing, held at Balice Hertling & Lewis in 2011, was titled after an eponymous painting by Magritte, depicting an artist’s studio.[4] Mayton’s show recreated the mise-en-scène of Magritte’s painting with several large-scale paintings; a coat rack; citrus fruits scattered across the gallery floor, referring to the surrealists’ obsession with fruit; and a doormat printed with the title of the show.[3]

Exhibitions[edit]

Charles Mayton has held solo exhibitions at David Lewis, New York (2016);[5] American Academy in Rome, Italy,[6] and Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles (both 2015);[7] Campoli Presti, Paris (2014);[8] The Power Station, Dallas (2013);[9] Balice Hertling, Paris (2012);[10] and Balice Hertling & Lewis, New York (2011),[11] among others.

His work has been shown in group exhibitions at VAVA, Milan (2015); Thomas Dane, London (2014); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2013);[12] SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York (2011);[13] and White Columns, New York (2010).[14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Charles Mayton". Widewalls. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  2. ^ a b c "Natilee Harren on "Needles in the Camel's Eye"". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  3. ^ a b "Charles Mayton at Balice Hertling at the Film Center | New York". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  4. ^ a b "Charles Mayton". frieze.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  5. ^ "Charles Mayton - David Lewis". David Lewis. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  6. ^ "Charles Mayton, Tableau Table Tavolo | American Academy in Rome". www.aarome.org. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  7. ^ "CHARLES MAYTON : THOMAS DUNCAN GALLERY". thomasduncangallery.com. Archived from the original on 2017-04-12. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  8. ^ "CHARLES MAYTON | CAMPOLI PRESTI". CAMPOLI PRESTI (in French). Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  9. ^ "CHARLES MAYTON". The Power Station. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  10. ^ "Charles Mayton". Balice Hertling. 2012-11-07. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  11. ^ "Charles Mayton at Balice Hertling & Lewis (Contemporary Art Daily)". www.contemporaryartdaily.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  12. ^ "Painter Painter". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  13. ^ SculptureCenter. "SculptureCenter Exhibition - Vide-Poche". www.sculpture-center.org. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  14. ^ "White Columns - Archive". www.whitecolumns.org. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
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