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Sam Clayton - Art
Artist, painter Sam Clayton has explored the nature of personal experience as expressed through image and form since the nineteen seventies. His work achieves its power from the visceral resonance of its physical presence. The work is intuitively constructed and suggests possibilities, inviting the viewer to find or recognise aspects of their own life experience or reality.
The subject is making art, the object is whatever form and image makes it happen.
STATEMENT:
Sam's work comes from his investigation with the concept of transcendence. The experience and understanding of the self is extremely complex, and often goes unexamined. He poses the question 'Can a work of art provide the viewer with a kind of Rorshach moment, stimulating a visceral reaction by juxtaposing image with form, space, texture and color'. Immaterial – what he calls his body of work – attempts to examine that question.
These works spring from Sam's deeply felt love of painting, drawing and sculpture -- not only of the rendered image, but of the raw materials that go into the work. The narrative element is to be found -- or perhaps, created -- by the viewer. Their response springs from the collision of those raw materials, which resonate with the unconscious, the rendered image, and mirror what we confront in our lives on a daily basis.
We live in a world of form and substance, the physical world masking the other reality, that of the internal world. But what is behind that mask? These works are not meant to be understood literally. Their power is in the visual poetry of this collision of the seen and the unseen.
RESUME:
Born
New York
Education
Hofstra University 1971
Webster College 1972-73
Art Students League 1973
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1973-1977
Awards
Bergman Painting Prize; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila, PA 1976
Grant Still Life Prize; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila, PA 1976
Cresson Traveling Scholarship; Pennsylvania Acad. of Fine Arts, Phila, PA 1976
Art Advisory Council Award; Port Washington, New York 1981
Penny McCall Foundation Grant: New York, NY 1988
Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT 2003
Solo Exhibitions
Marian Locks Gallery; Philadelphia, PA 1977
Atelier Show; New York, NY 1979
Luise Mestre Fine Art; New York, NY 1979
Art Advisory Council; Port Washington, NY 1983
Atelier Exhibition; New York, NY 1983
Rotell Gallery; Montclair, NJ 2002
George Smith; Los Angeles, CA 2003
Salomon Arts; New York, NY 2007
Henry Gregg Gallery; Brooklyn, NY 2007
Immaterial: A Survey of Work; Port Washington, NY 2010
Immaterial; Southern Vermont Arts Center; Manchester, VT 2011
Group Exhibitions
Bicentennial Exhibition; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Phila, PA 1976
Tennessee Fine Arts Center; Nashville, TN 1979
International Arts Exposition / Gallery A; Cologne, Germany 1979
Mississippi Museum of Art; Jackson, MS 1979
Cresson Scholars Exhibition; Art Alliance; Philadelphia, PA 1980
International Arts Exposition / Gallery A; Dusseldorf, Germany 1979
Two American Realists; Gallery A; Munich, Germany 1980
Art Advisory Council Exhibition; Port Washington, NY 1981
Peace Art, Traveling Exhibition; New York, NY 2001
PS 122 Benefit; New York, NY 2001
Thompson St. Benefit, New York Foundation for the Arts; NY 2001
TOAST; New York, NY 2002
Gallery Selections, Gallery 50; Bridgeton, NJ 2002
TOAST; New York, NY 2003
Gowanus Artists; Brooklyn, NY 2003
Sacramento Valley Landscape Painters; John Natsoulas Gallery; Davis, CA 2004
Gowanus Artists; Brooklyn, NY 2004
Plein Aire Art Festival; John Natsoulas Gallery; Davis, CA 2005
Sacramento Valley Landscape Painters; John Natsoulas Gallery; Davis, CA 2005
Gowanus Artists; Brooklyn, NY 2005
Village Zendo Arts Festival; New York, NY 2010
Sweetcake Enso; Village Zendo; New York, NY 2011
Collections
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Philadelphia, PA
Tennessee Fine Arts Center; Nashville, TN
Institute for Scientific Information; Philadelphia, PA
Villanova University; Villanova, PA
Fuji Capital Markets Corporation; New York, NY
Kurt Salmon Associates; New York, NY
John Trieber Agency; Garden City, NY
Holland & Knight; New York, NY
Home Ranch; Clark, CO >
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