31/01/2022
The contemporary painter you should know.
Charles Mayton is a New York-based painter who works in the field of abstractionism. His paintings are often auto-reflexive, contemplating the medium itself. The meta-poetic discourse dominates his work, as he explores different ways in which the artistic inspiration can be documented on canvas. Abstract and conceptual, Charles Mayton’s paintings speak about themselves and the process of their making. Blank spaces in the form of semiotic symbols can be seen as the trademark of his work, cracks in the vivid and colorful surface, left for the spectators to fill in the meaning. He is also engaged in the dialogue with the past, the way in which pieces from the past can be reconstructed and revitalized in different cultural and intellectual contexts.
