Jordan Clayton
Artist member since 2018
Toronto, Ontario
Jordan clayton is an award-winning artist who specializes in painting and drawing. His work has been exhibited internationally from the very beginning of practice and is internationally collected by both private and corporate collectors. His work monumentalizes the unseen, the unnoticed, and the alien. He integrates technology, machine learning, collage, and painter’s hand to construct surrealist spaces that bear kafkaesque melancholy. Influenced by nature’s eeriest creatures, both sympatric to and outside of anthropogenic life, he develops the organic into the composited uncanny. These spaces sew an ambiguous narrative that integrates art, technology, science fiction, and queerness. Driven by his experiences as a loner, a weirdo, and a social outcast, Clayton uses the grotesque as a lens to harnesses the beauty found in darkness and alienation.
Work
Greeble Gobble V: I Think I'm Okay With it Being a Seizure
- Jordan Clayton
- 11" x 10.5" x 0.1"
- $700 buy
Q+A
Favourite musical artist / band right now
Björk
What do you listen to when you work?
Jazz, disco, electronica, my cats meowing.
Describe the person your work appeals to in 3 words
Someone who likes to take the time to unravel a mystery.
When did you start making art, and why?
My early 20's! I realized I was a bit too weird for reality and felt compelled to start painting my own.
During my breaks, I tend to ...
Catch up on reading.
Favourite medium
Theresa Caputo
Upcoming Exhibitions
October 3rd.
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