Cecil Touchon texas, usa
Cecil Touchon texas, usa
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Cecil Touchon was born in Austin, Texas. His artistic inspiration was ignited early and explored throughout his childhood and into his young adulthood. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Throughout his career, which spans over 30 years, Touchon has been collected worldwide and figures prominently in the Massurrealism movement. Touchon is a founding member of the 1987 Post-Dogmatist Group as well as a respected member of the Art Mail and Fluxus communities. Touchon's work was exhibited in the 2001 and 2009 Venice Biennale and can be found in more than 45 corporate and international museum collections including the MOMA, Studio One, LACMA, The Getty Research Institute, the Chicago Art Institute, the MOCA Chicago, The Tate Modern, and others. -
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Cecil Touchon: Songs of the Ineffable
Nüart Gallery presents, “Songs of the Ineffable,' a solo exhibition of new works by Cecil Touchon. The exhibition will run July 9th through July 25th, 2021 with an opening reception... - Video entries
Cecil Touchon: Live Q+A
Nüart Gallery presents, “Songs of the Ineffable,' a solo exhibition of new works by Cecil Touchon. The exhibition will run July 9th through July 25th, 2021 with an opening reception...
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Biography
"My collage art depends a great deal on serendipitous discovery. This allows a certain amount of chance and randomness to find its way into my work which in turn makes possible an interactive dynamic." — Cecil Touchon
Cecil Touchon is a painter, performance artist, collector, draftsman, photographer, and curator. But it is through his collage work that he has made his most lasting mark. His collages are the seeds that grow into his other practices.
Touchon's paintings are abstractions based upon typography. Using the techniques of collage, he reassembles portions of letter fonts from billboards and printed material into pure abstractions that transform verbal language into a form of visual architecture.
His paintings use trompe l'oeil techniques to painstakingly create the illusion of large collage abstractions. They are characterized by warmly colored geometric shapes — overlapping rectangles and rounded wedges - that seem to revolve and recede into the background. The resulting works are a play of lightness and mass that are both visually striking and, because of the hints of letters, intellectually satisfying.
Cecil Touchon was born in Austin, Texas. His artistic inspiration was ignited early and explored throughout his childhood and into his young adulthood. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Throughout his career, which spans over 30 years, Touchon has been collected worldwide and figures prominently in the Massurrealism movement. Touchon is a founding member of the 1987 Post-Dogmatist Group as well as a respected member of the Art Mail and Fluxus communities. Touchon's work was exhibited in the 2001 and 2009 Venice Biennale and can be found in more than 45 corporate and international museum collections including the MOMA, Studio One, LACMA, The Getty Research Institute, the Chicago Art Institute, the MOCA Chicago, The Tate Modern, and others.
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Exhibitions
Grand Opening | Nüart Gallery | Santa Monica | "In Principio"
2 - 30 Mar 2024Nüart Gallery proudly announces its inaugural exhibition at their newest outpost located at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica with a group show of select paintings. The exhibition will run from...Read moreR-E-D | 2024
A Group Exhibition9 - 25 Feb 2024Nüart Gallery is thrilled to announce "R-E-D," our annual Valentine's Day exhibition featuring a curated collection of work celebrating the color red and its proximity to love and passion. .Read more
In art, music, and literature, love has always been one of the major engines of human creativity. In celebration of love, romance, and the mysterious longings of the heart, "R-E-D" features a diverse collection of artworks filled with romance for our annual Valentine's Day exhibition. Each work offers a distinct perspective on the color red and its unmistakable relationship with human desire and life itself.Winter Selections | 2024
A Group Exhibition12 - 28 Jan 2024Nüart Gallery is pleased to present Winter Selections, our annual exhibition featuring a curation of our artists whose abstract and figurative work celebrate a constrained winter palette. The exhibition will open on January 12th and through January 28th, 2024.Read moreR-E-D
A Group Exhibition10 - 19 Feb 2023Nüart Gallery is excited to announce the opening of ' R-E-D,' a Valentine's Day exhibition featuring a curated collection of paintings that celebrate the color red and its connection to...Read moreWinter Selections
A Group Exhibition20 Jan - 5 Feb 2023We’re excited to share our annual exhibition Winter Selections, featuring a curation of our artists whose abstract and figurative work celebrate a constrained winter palette . The minimalist environment of...Read morePeter Stephens + Cecil Touchon
Between the Lines 4 - 20 Nov 2022Nüart Gallery presents “ Between the Lines, ' an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Peter Stephens and Cecil Touchon . The artists’ work is multilayered and complex, utilizing various...Read moreRed Show
The Color of Love11 - 25 Feb 2022A selection of works by our artists, reflecting their interpretations of one of the most celebrated human emotions – love. We invite you to join us in celebrating one of the most powerful colors of the spectrum.Read moreWinter Selections
A Group Exhibition24 Jan - 6 Feb 2022Nüart Gallery is pleased to present Winter Selections, an exhibition featuring a curation of our artists whose abstract and figurative work celebrate a constrained winter palette. The minimalist environment of...Read moreAbstractions 2021
19 Nov - 12 Dec 2021Featuring Work by Beverly Kedzior, Emilio Lobato, Joseph Ostraff, Willy Bo Richardson + Judy WoodsRead moreCecil Touchon
Songs of the Ineffable9 - 25 Jul 2021Nüart Gallery presents, “Songs of the Ineffable,' a solo exhibition of new works by Cecil Touchon. The exhibition will run July 9th through July 25th, 2021 with an opening reception...Read moreWinter Inspirations
A Group Exhibition29 Jan - 7 Feb 2021Nüart Gallery presents Winter Inspirations, a group exhibition of paintings by Nüart Gallery artists. The exhibition will run January 29th through February 7th, 2020. We're celebrating the season of the...Read moreAbstractions Group Exhibition 2019
Shar Coulson, Cecil Touchon, Joseph Ostraff, Claire B Cotts, Rose Masterpol, & Anne Kaferle8 - 24 Nov 2019Nüart Gallery is pleased to present, “ Abstractions 2019 ' a group exhibition of new work by six contemporary artists working in abstraction. The exhibition will run November 8 th...Read moreCecil Touchon
Subliteral Poetics27 Oct - 12 Nov 2017Using typographic fonts, Internationally renowned artist Cecil Touchon creates abstractions coming from the collage tradition. His practice transforms the symbols of the written language into a form of visual architecture....Read moreCecil Touchon
before the beginning27 May - 12 Jun 2016Internationally renowned artist Cecil Touchon creates elegant abstractions derived from the typographical tradition. Employing collage and paint, Touchon's practice seamlessly merges ephemera with partial curvilinear letterforms, reminiscent of the early...Read moreCecil Touchon
in a broken tongue24 May - 9 Jun 2013In this solo exhibition, Cecil Touchon continues to develop paintings based upon collage work. Sometimes the edges of the letters are perceptible, but most often they are simply lyrical shapes....Read more
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