EDUCATION
North Texas State University
University of Texas at Arlington
Nüart Gallery is pleased to announce that we are now carrying the work of Cecil Touchon, renowned oil painter of 30 years. Touchon has an international following of collectors and is a major figure in the massurrealism movement as well as a co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group in 1987. His work is characterized by warmly colored geometric shapes - overlapping rectangles and rounded wedges - that seem to revolve and recede into the canvas. Touchon often uses collages as the models for his paintings; he will assemble a collage and then "paint a picture" of his collage using painstaking trompe l'oeil techniques. The resulting paintings are simultaneously beautiful, visually fascinating and conceptually rigorous and interesting.
Touchon's paintings are in the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction as well as 45 corporate collections, including major international companies such as Citibank, IBM, and American Express. He recently had his 30-year retrospective in 2005, a major marker in his artistic career.
What the press is saying about Cecil Touchon:
" Abstraction has never looked as beautifully serene as it does in the work of Cecil Touchon. He combines the collage-like approach to the Constructivist painters with an almost trompe l'oeil sense of spacial depth."
The Dallas Observer
" The 10 year survey of Cecil Touchon's work ... might very well be called In Pursuit of Elegance. Touchon creates mixed media works that are saturated with a sort of recherche, Proustian elegance. Fusing drawing, painting and collage, he creates serenely abstract images that recall early 20th century Constructivism and Synthetic Cubism."
Janet Tyson
Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
"Visual music comes in all flavors and textures in the work of Cecil Touchon. It can be as sensuous and multi-layered as a baroque opera or as spare and inferential as a cool jazz riff. It can taste like chocolate or feel like a summer breeze. An abstract painting can be so graphically precise that one can hear the melody and feel the beat."
Suzanne Deats
