Biography
Cleon Peterson is an American artist born in 1973 in Seattle and based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, from the 2000s he developed a radical iconography: stylised human silhouettes in black and white caught in scenes of violence, submission and power, recalling at once ancient Greek pottery and punk record sleeves.
His palette is limited to two colours — often black and white, sometimes flat red or orange — to focus the reading on bodies and gestures. His cyclical compositions, peopled with figures who fight, embrace or surrender, deliver a critical vision of the contemporary and its dynamics of domination.
In 2016 he painted Endless Sleep, the first ever mural made beneath the Eiffel Tower for Paris's Nuit Blanche. He is represented by Albertz Benda in New York, shows with Library Street Collective in Detroit and has taken part in MURAL Montréal, Wynwood Miami and Beyond the Streets festivals.
His palette is limited to two colours — often black and white, sometimes flat red or orange — to focus the reading on bodies and gestures. His cyclical compositions, peopled with figures who fight, embrace or surrender, deliver a critical vision of the contemporary and its dynamics of domination.
In 2016 he painted Endless Sleep, the first ever mural made beneath the Eiffel Tower for Paris's Nuit Blanche. He is represented by Albertz Benda in New York, shows with Library Street Collective in Detroit and has taken part in MURAL Montréal, Wynwood Miami and Beyond the Streets festivals.
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