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Artist

Cecilia Charlton

Introducing Cecilia

Through my paintings, I transform the real world, suspending time and sound, and offer a meditation on dualities: individuality/ homogeneity of the person, contemporary/archaic thought processes, and real/digital space. In art, as in life, contradictions enable subjectivity and promote personal inquiry—it is this effect that I wish to exercise in an effort to promote independent thought. I was born in the US and recently relocated to London, UK. Currently, I am currently working in the mediums of paint and textiles.

What we love about Cecilia

These abstract works burst with color, straight lines, organic forms and architectural planes. Often highly structured with adroit accuracy, but sometimes whimsical, her acrylic pieces take a hard line on her genre of “reductive scientific surrealism”. “Dragon” is part of her exploration between what’s abstract and real. Whereas “p-2017-02-02” is mesmerizing with its curved focal form and patterned core.

Artist Bio

Group Exhibitions

  1. 2017 RCA WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London UK
  2. 2016 The Abstraction of Continents / The Continent of Abstraction, Lychee One Gallery, London UK
  3. 2016 27th International Juried Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, New York NY
  4. 2016 Thunder Umbrella, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT
  5. 2015 Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT
  6. 2015 BFA / THESIS, Hunter College, New York NY
  7. 2015 WAH Bridges Self, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn NY
  8. 2014 #occupycommonground, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York NY

Awards

  1. 2016 Fulbright UK Open Award, short-listed
  2. 2015 Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center
  3. 2015 Andy and Marsha Glazer Painting Award, Art of the Northeast Exhibition
  4. 2015 Kossak Painting Fellowship, Hunter College
  5. 2014 Ellen Battel Stockel Fellowship, Yale University
  6. 2014 Kossak Painting Fellowship, Hunter College
  7. 2010 Strategic Opportunities Stipend, NYFA
  8. 2009 Strategic Opportunities Stipend, NYFA
  9. 2009 Bob Tichane Endowment for the Arts, Corning Community College

Collections

  1. Manhattan / Hunter Science Highschool, New York NY
  2. Joachim Pissaro, New York NY
  3. Jessica Healy, Norfolk CT

Publications

  1. 2016 Front Art Space, OPEN16
  2. 2016 New American Paintings, Northeast #122
  3. 2015 101 Contemporary Artists, Winter 2015
  4. 2014 Studio Visit Magazine, Winter 2014
  5. 2014 Starry Night, Artists to Look Out For Catalogue

Education

  1. 2018 M.A. Painting Candidate, Royal College of Art, London UK
  2. 2015 B.F.A. Hunter College summa cum laude, New York NY
  3. 2014 Yale Norfolk School of Music & Art, Norfolk CT

Residencies

  1. 2017 RUD AIR, Laxarby Sweden
  2. 2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
  3. 2015 Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi Finland

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Artworks

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