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Torey Thornton BIOGRAPHY
Born 1990 Macon, Georgia. Known for: Abstract form painting.
In 25-year-old Thornton’s buoyant paintings, abstracted forms resembling parking lots, amoebas, globes, and gigantic flowers float amongst each other and flatten onto the same plane. This... Read full biography
In 25-year-old Thornton’s buoyant paintings, abstracted forms resembling parking lots, amoebas, globes, and gigantic flowers float amongst each other and flatten onto the same plane. This year—following a breakout show at Moran Bondaroff in late 2014—Thornton’s deft experiments with pictorial space... Read full biography
In 25-year-old Thornton’s buoyant paintings, abstracted forms resembling parking lots, amoebas, globes, and gigantic flowers float amongst each other and flatten onto the same plane. This year—following a breakout show at Moran Bondaroff in late 2014—Thornton’s deft experiments with pictorial space filled Stuart Shave/Modern Art’s London gallery in a celebrated solo show and punctuated group exhibitions at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, CANADA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Now, from his big,... Read full biography
In 25-year-old Thornton’s buoyant paintings, abstracted forms resembling parking lots, amoebas, globes, and gigantic flowers float amongst each other and flatten onto the same plane. This year—following a breakout show at Moran Bondaroff in late 2014—Thornton’s deft experiments with pictorial space filled Stuart Shave/Modern Art’s London gallery in a celebrated solo show and punctuated group exhibitions at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, CANADA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Now, from his big, light-filled studio in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy, Thornton readies for his first institutional solo exhibition at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, slated to open in February 2016. “What makes Torey’s work so appealing is his employment of purposely ambiguous... Read full biography
In 25-year-old Thornton’s buoyant paintings, abstracted forms resembling parking lots, amoebas, globes, and gigantic flowers float amongst each other and flatten onto the same plane. This year—following a breakout show at Moran Bondaroff in late 2014—Thornton’s deft experiments with pictorial space filled Stuart Shave/Modern Art’s London gallery in a celebrated solo show and punctuated group exhibitions at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, CANADA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Now, from his big, light-filled studio in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy, Thornton readies for his first institutional solo exhibition at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, slated to open in February 2016. “What makes Torey’s work so appealing is his employment of purposely ambiguous imagery, which challenges viewers to approach his paintings from a very personal point of view,” explains Holly Hughes, Albright-Knox’s curat... Read full biography
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In 25-year-old Thornton’s buoyant paintings, abstracted forms resembling parking lots, amoebas, globes, and gigantic flowers float amongst each other and flatten onto the same plane. This year—following a breakout show at Moran Bondaroff in late 2014—Thornton’s deft experiments with pictorial space filled Stuart Shave/Modern Art’s London gallery in a celebrated solo show and punctuated group exhibitions at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, CANADA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Now, from his big, light-filled studio in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy, Thornton readies for his first institutional solo exhibition at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, slated to open in February 2016.
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