Cecil Touchon
American, b. 1956
Cecil Touchon is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico . Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group's Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists. Cecil Touchon is best known for his Typographic Abstraction works that 'Free the letters from their burden of being bearers of meaning".
Touchon's paintings are abstractions based upon typography. Using the techniques of collage, he reassembles portions of letter fonts from billboards and printed material into pure abstractions that transform verbal language into a form of visual architecture. His paintings use trompe l'oeil techniques to painstakingly create the illusion of large collage abstractions. They are characterized by warmly colored geometric shapes — overlapping rectangles and rounded wedges - that seem to revolve and recede into the background. The resulting works are a play of lightness and mass that are both visually striking and, because of the hints of letters, intellectually satisfying. Touchon was born in Austin, Texas. His artistic inspiration was ignited early and explored throughout his childhood and into his young adulthood. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Throughout his career, which spans over 30 years, Touchon has been collected worldwide and figures prominently in the Massurrealism movement. Touchon is a founding member of the 1987 Post-Dogmatist Group as well as a respected member of the Art Mail and Fluxus communities. Touchon's work was exhibited in the 2001 and 2009 Venice Biennale and can be found in more than 45 corporate and international collections.| Styles |
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Located in West Palm Beach, FL
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Painting on Panel Titled: PDP695 ct14
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Located in West Palm Beach, FL
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Painting on Panel Titled: PDP698
By Cecil Touchon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
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Original Painting on Canvas Titled: "PDP 1147”
By Cecil Touchon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Painting on Panel signed verso
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Original Painting on Panel Titled: "PDP598ct13""
By Cecil Touchon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Painting on Canvas signed verso, blue white navy blue
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Painting on Panel Titled: PDP829 ct2016
By Cecil Touchon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Post Dogmatist Painting on Panel, signed verso
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collage by renown artist Cecil Touchon image is 12 x 18 heavy watercolor paper is 22 x 30 signed verso
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