Clayton Colvin

Clayton Colvin is an American artist and Curator of Contemporary Art who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama. He received a BA in Art History from New York University in 1999 and an MA Ed. Art Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003. He received his MFA in painting from University of Alabama in 2005.

Colvin interned for Agnes for several summers while attending school. While there Colvin worked with many artists from the gallery including Karen Graffeo, Lee Isaacs, Spider Martin, Jack Spencer, Melissa Springer, and Thomas Tulis.

Curatorial work

Colvin founded StealthArts in Birmingham, Alabama. Stealtharts ran for 2 years. Colvin curated stealtharts shows. He has also curated exhibitions with University of Alabama at Birmingham Visual Arts Gallery, as well as Center for the Living Arts/Space 301, Mobile, Alabama.

Selected Curated Exhibitions Werk, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, May 2010 Poems and Paintings from Memphis, November 2009, Amanda Schedler Fine Arts

Registering the Invisible, Space 301 off-centre, featuring work from Mobile and Baldwin Co. schools, Ashley Oates, Richard Curtis, and University of South Alabama Photography students

Alvin C. Sella, recent paintings, Space 301 (Sept 6th –November 12) featureing work by Alvin Sella, and then work by former Sella students: Pat Snow, Katherine B., Dominic, Nick Davis, Jerry Roland, and Ty Smith.

Southern Gothic Now, Space 301 off-centre (May 9 – July 6, 2008), featuring works from Chris Jancke , Doug Baulos, Merrilee Challiss, Greg Hopins, Amy Pleasant, Maysay Craddock, Julie Puttgen, TM Sisters, and others.

Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 off-centre (Mobile’s Centre for the Living Arts), featuring works from Buzz Spector, Francis Alys, William Christenberry, Lance Winn, Christopher McNulty, Greg Hopkins, Buffy Rinehart, and others

A Time for War or Peace: Art that confronts the realities of the present, Space 301 off-centre, featuring work from Steve Mumford, Multi-national Force-Iraq,, Beth Edwards, Erika Somogyi, among others (Co-curated By David McCann and Clayton Colvin, essay by Clayton Colvin)

Life is But Dream: Contemporary figurative photography, Space 301 off- centre, featuring works from Ryan McGinley, Julie Moos, Demetrius Oliver, Aaron Young, among others.

Contexture: fabric, fashion, fantasy, Space 301 off-centre, featuring works from Pinky Bass, Alabama Chanin, Knittaplease.com, Hiroshi Tanabe, Xiang yang, among others.

..and you must make a friend of horror, The Upper Room, Birmingham, Al, featuring Heather Blackwell, Natalie Benedetti, Samuel Nyholm, and Pat Snow

Art and Place 1: Place as Muse, Space 301 (Mobile’s Centre for the Living Arts), featuring works from Jen DeNike, Johannes Nyholm, Paul Slocum, Jeremy Earhart, Tom Moody, BEIGE, and Bryce Speed, among others.

November: a selection of works from UAB undergraduates, Stealtharts, featuring: Suzy Moorer, Jill Ivins, Gene Ferreiro, and Michael James Lukacovic

Information in Formation, UAB Visual Art Gallery, featuring the work of Billy Apple, John Baldessari, John Simon Jr., Brian Bishop, and others. (Co-curated by Clayton Colvin and Brett Levine)

Selected Public programs and Presentations 2010 Juror, Student Exhibition, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA

2008 Visiting Artist lecture and critiques, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN Re-imagining Architecture, a discussion with guest Sarah Urist Green, guest curator of the Space 301 exhibition, Amongst the Ruins Field Recordings, a visiting artist lecture to the art department at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL

Registering the Invisible, an event featuring Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham Art Historian Dr. Jessica Dallow and artists Ashley Oates, Brian Evans, and Rich Curtis.

Southern Gothic Now, a gallery talk featuring artists from the exhibition. Alvin C. Sella’s Recent Paintings Considered, a gallery talk discussing Sella’s paintings and legacy as an artist and educator

2007 GreenSpace, Space 301, a roundtable discussion with Dr David Nelson(Univ. of South Alabama Biologist), Harry DeLorme (Telfair Museum Curator of Education), and Cassi Calloway (of the Mobile Bay Keapers)

Life is But a Dream: The Ethics of Photojournalism, a roundtable discussion with Mobile Press-Register staff photographers

Life is But a Dream: the Poetic nature of Photography, a discussion with University of South Alabama’s Rita Skiadas

Contexture: fabric, fashion, fantasy , a roundtable discussion featuring Univ. of South Alabama’s Dr. Elizabeth Richards, and exhibiting artists Pinky Bass, Matt Posey, and Alex Podesta

2006 Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 (Mobile’s Centre for the living Arts), a roundtable with Dr. Jessica Dallow, Jen DeNike, Johannes Nyholm, and Chris Lawson

WHIL 91.3 FM (NPR) Spring Hill College, discussion of Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 (Mobile’s Centre for the Living Arts)

His art

Colvin's recent exhibition record is as follows: 2010 group show: Alabama Humanities Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary of To Kill A Mocking Bird

solo exhibition Fiction, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL

solo exhibition: Caseworks, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN

ARTPAPERS: annual art auction, juried benefit for ARTPAPERS magazine, Atlanta

2009: Fiction, solo exhibition, Amanda Schedler Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL

Drawing on Alabama 2009, Biggins Hall, Auburn, Al ---- Space 301, Mobile, AL

2008: solo exhibition Pier and Ocean and Main St., Amanda Schedler Fine Arts, Birmingham

solo exhibition Pier and Ocean and Main St., Material, Memphis, TN

ARTPAPERS: 9th annual art auction, juried benefit for ARTPAPERS magazine, Atlanta

2007: le papier (part) deux: group exhibition of works on paper, Geschiedle, Chicago, IL FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE (curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike), Circus of Books, Los Angeles

FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE (curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike), McMurdo Station, Antarctica

SuckaFreeJams: the Remainder Gallery, Birmingham, AL Dia de los Muertos: Barehands Gallery, Birmingham, AL Satellite Gone: solo show, The Upper Room, Birmingham, AL Popular Digest: Clayton V. Colvin and Pat Snow, Barehands, Birmingham, AL

2006 Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! (curated by Anat Ebgi,, and Jose Carlos Diaz),, Gescheidle Chicago,IL

IRAQ (curated by Lynn Longe), Gulfspace, Fairhope, AL Night of 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY

FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE (curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike), Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

Made in Birmingham (curated by Brett Levine), Space 301, Mobile, AL Unselfconscious Alabama, A Farmhouse Gallery, Seale, AL Politics, Politics: Questions for the New South Series, Space-One-Eleven, Bham, AL Contour, (curated by Jon Cofffelt) for Schedler Minchin FA, Birmingham, AL

2005 Space Cadet, solo show , Material, Memphis, TN Birmingham’s Best Young Artists, Schedler Minchin FA, Birmingham,A Night 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, NY, NY

Worm-Hole Laboratory’s Art-Official X-mas, @ Frisbee, Miami Beach Worm-Hole Laboratory’s Art-Official X-mas, @Queen’s Nail Annex, San Francisco UAB Faculty Show, Soon-Bok Lee Sellers Art Gallery, Hoover, AL

Postcards from the Gulf, Gulf Art Space, Fairhope, AL

2004 5 from 4, Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, Alabama Reoccurring Exchange, Florida International University, Miami, Florida Dirty South!, Worm-hole Laboratory, Miami, Florida, Curator : Jose-Carlos Diaz Colvin will show in April and May 2010 in caseworks exhibitions space in Memphis, Tn.

Colvin was included in "Politics, Politics: Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape" curated by Anne Arrasmith and Peter Prinz of Space One Eleven. This exhibition was funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and included Pinky Bass and John Trobaugh.

Colvin's work was part of "Contour: The Definitive Line" curated by Jon Coffelt. One of 17 artists who were asked to define the concept of contour, the exhibit was the culmination of this subjective approach.^[1] This exhibition also included Sara Garden Armstrong, Lee Isaacs and Sean Slemon.

Quotes about Colvin

• Clayton Colvin's work is an attempt to come to terms with the multitude of experiences we deal with day to day; a way of gaining insight, a way of understanding the present. His work is an effort to order, (re)present and mark his existence. - Brian Bishop (University of Alabama)^[2]

• Clayton Colvin's mixed media canvases and sketches are heavily coated with a clear vinyl that has the look of solidified gel. Isolated words are scribbled, sketchy lines and restless black arrows meander across a surface that suggest objects but have no real identity. On occasion Colvin labels his works as "Untitled" and then gives them titles in parentheses, such as "Metamorphosis," "Space Cadet" and "Ambassador," hinting at content but suggesting is content incidental to intent. - James Nelson, critic for The Birmingham News, 2006^{[citation needed]}

Awards

• 2006 Emerging Artist for the City of Birmingham, MCAC

Notes

1. ^ Schedler Minchin Fine Art - "Contour: The Definitive Line"
2. ^ Brian Bishop, Foreword for Emerging Artist 2006 (Magic City Art Connection)

External links

• [1]
• Photographic record of a visit to Colvin's studio (hamlettdobbins.com)
• [2] Material Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
• Bio, Amanda Schedler Fine Arts
• Clayton Colvin, the University of Alabama at Birmingham

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