{"id":1498,"date":"2013-11-21T19:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/?page_id=1498"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:57:20","slug":"clayton-brothers-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/en\/artists\/clayton-brothers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clayton Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row center_row=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=&#8221;CLAYTON BROTHERS&#8221; color=&#8221;juicy_pink&#8221; element_type=&#8221;div&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;bolder&#8221;]<div class=\"vcex-spacing wpex-w-100 wpex-clear\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-416\" src=\"http:\/\/colomboarte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clayton-evidence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clayton-evidence.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clayton-evidence-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clayton-evidence-1024x575.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"vcex-spacing wpex-w-100 wpex-clear\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]<strong>CLAYTON BROTHERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob<\/strong> (1963, Dayton, Ohio) and <strong>Christian<\/strong> (1967, Denver, Colorado) <strong>Clayton<\/strong> studied at the Art Center College of Design of Pasadena (California), graduating with honors.<\/p>\n<p>The Clayton brothers had an unconventional process in which one contributes mixed media while adapting, transforming and reworking what the other has completed.<br \/>\nThey pulled inspiration from their environment, incorporating local businesses, neighborhood regulars and snippets of overheard conversations as subjects for their paintings. Composing pieces in conjunction, motifs, gestures, places and figures reoccur, creating interlinked dramatic scripts across separate works. Approaching painting as a visual representation of pure energy, everyday scenes explode in vortexes of blinding color, animated movement and product placement, giving the effect of revealing every frame of a film simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>They have had important solo shows at the Musee de la Halle Saint Pierre in Paris (2013), the Pasadena Museum of Art (2011) and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (2010), and in many galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Santa Monica and Beijing (China). Their works have also be featured in group shows at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (<em>Incognito<\/em>, 2010), the Laguna Art Museum of Laguna Beach (<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights<\/em>, 2008) and the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, Kansas (<em>BLAB! A Retrospective,<\/em> 2008), as well as major international art fairs like Art Basel, in Switzerland, in 2009 and 2010, and the Armory Show in New York in 2006 and 2007.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"vcex-spacing wpex-w-100 wpex-clear\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row center_row=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column]<div class=\"vcex-module vcex-divider vcex-divider-solid vcex-divider-center wpex-mx-auto wpex-block wpex-h-0 wpex-border-b wpex-border-solid wpex-border-main\" style=\"margin-block:30px;border-color:#c8c8c8;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row center_row=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column]<div class=\"vcex-image-grid-wrap\"><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-image-grid grid-style-masonry wpex-row wpex-clr vcex-isotope-grid no-transition wpex-overflow-hidden wpex-lightbox-group\" data-transition-duration=\"0.0\"><div class=\"id-292 vcex-image-grid-entry vcex-grid-item vcex-isotope-entry wpex-text-center span_1_of_6 col col-1\"><figure class=\"vcex-image-grid-entry-figure wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><div class=\"vcex-image-grid-entry-img entry-media wpex-relative wpex-image-hover grow wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clayton-Brothers-Ancestor-1-2011-acrilico-su-tavola-cm-30x30.jpg\" class=\"vcex-image-grid-entry-link wpex-lightbox-group-item\" data-title=\"Clayton Brothers, Ancestor # 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8, 2011, acrylic on plywood,  30 x 30 cm\"><img width=\"800\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clayton-Brothers-Ancestor8-2011-acrilico-su-tavola-cm-30x30.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle skip-lazy\" alt=\"Clayton Brothers, Ancestor # 8, 2011, acrylic on plywood, cm 30 x 30\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clayton-Brothers-Ancestor8-2011-acrilico-su-tavola-cm-30x30.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clayton-Brothers-Ancestor8-2011-acrilico-su-tavola-cm-30x30-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colomboarte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clayton-Brothers-Ancestor8-2011-acrilico-su-tavola-cm-30x30-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row center_row=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=&#8221;CLAYTON BROTHERS&#8221; color=&#8221;juicy_pink&#8221; element_type=&#8221;div&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;bolder&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]CLAYTON BROTHERS Rob (1963, Dayton, Ohio) and Christian (1967, Denver, Colorado) Clayton studied at the Art Center College of Design of Pasadena (California), graduating with honors. 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