Cleon Peterson — The Tempest
Cleon Peterson — The Tempest
1 color screenprint on Legion Sirio Ultrablack 370gsm. Deckled, numbered and signed by the artist.
30h x 24w inches
Edition of 30
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Cleon Peterson — MFA (2D Design, 2006)
Cleon Peterson (b. 1973, Seattle, Washington) received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Peterson is an LA based artist whose chaotic and violent paintings show clashing figures symbolizing a struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society.
Inspired by Leon Golub, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Peterson is drawn to the subtexts considered when faced with violence, abuse of power and perversion - the psychological motivation for brutality, and the sociological forces that harbor a climate of anger and disorder. His paintings depict both debaucherous city scenes and intimate battles, contrasting mob mentality with eye-for-an-eye vengeance. The Tempest follows suit, the work stylistically minimal, focusing on form, two-dimensionality and a limited color palette of black and white.
“Everything I do is a reaction to the world we live in,” Peterson says. “I’m always thinking about what’s going on inside and outside of our country, between race, power and religion. I think there are huge problems in the world that have been going on forever and people have good reasons to be angry and seek change.”
