Peter Dayton's work pays homage to the high culture of post-painterly abstraction and the popular culture of surf art.
This
print is from Dayton’s surfboard series, rectangular wood panels
decorated with motifs from Kenneth Noland's iconic paintings of the
50's and 60's. The surfboards draw upon the formalist Modernism
championed by Clement Greenberg, the Finish Fetish movement of 1960’s
Los Angeles, Appropriation art from the 1980s, as well as the mores and
identifiers of surf culture.
Since the 1990s, Peter Dayton has
garnered a national reputation for his collaged flower paintings that
reference the psychedelic era of Andy Warhol as well as the slick 1980s
consumer culture exemplified in the work of Jeff Koons. He holds a BFA
from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, and studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology (with Nam
Jun Paik), and the Master Workshop of Fine Arts, Southampton, New York.
Public collections include; Chanel, Neiman Marcus, Denver Art Museum,
and the Museum of Fine Art, Houston among others. Born in 1955 in New
York City, Dayton currently resides in East Hampton, New York.
