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Cleon Peterson

Born in: 1973 United States

Emergent Artist

Cleon Peterson

United States Born in: 1973

Biography

Cleon Peterson was born in 1973 in Seattle. He grew up in a bohemian familiar environment, encouraging creation. Since he was asthmatic during his childhood, he liked drawing during his numerous hospitalizations. Later on, when he lived in New York, he became a drug addict and was in jail and in psychiatric hospitals a few times. It is from this experience that the artist draws his inpiration today.

Urban violence, the ghettos and the tension that prevails in a certain environment are all part of his work. "I paint a reality that not everybody has gone through, but it exist and is out there". There is a sort of primary life that goes with misery, that is what I try to approach in my paintings", says the artist, without any kind of moral jugement.

In parallel to his activity as a painter, Cleon Peterson is graphic designer known in the world of skateboarding. In 1998, he joined the Californian group of assistants of Shepard Fairey.

In 2009, he did his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and has not stop doing similar projects since then. In 2004, he did a 50 meter fresco at the Palais de Tokyo.

Cleon Peterson, Useless Idiot (white), Print

Cleon Peterson, Little Man Big Man Putin (Red), Print

Cleon Peterson, Little Man Big Man Putin Trump (Gold), Print

Cleon Peterson, The Genocide (white), Print

Cleon Peterson, Little man big man putin (Mueller), Print

Cleon Peterson, Burning the dead red, Print

Cleon Peterson, This Is Darkness II Gold, Print

Cleon Peterson, End Of Empire, Kylix, Print

Cleon Peterson, End Of Empire, Aryballos, Print

Cleon Peterson, End Of Empire, Amphora, Print

Cleon Peterson, Headless Man (Black and White), Print

Cleon Peterson, Headless Man (Black and Gold), Print

Cleon Peterson, The Disappeared (Red), Print

Cleon Peterson, Talk Talk Talk White, Print

Cleon Peterson, End Of Empire, Kantharos, Print

Cleon Peterson, Useless Idiot Red, Print

Cleon Peterson, Headless Man (Gold and White), Print

Cleon Peterson, The Disappeared White, Print

Cleon Peterson, The Disappeared Black, Print

Cleon Peterson, Talk Talk Talk (Red), Print

Cleon Peterson, The Collaborator (Red), Print

Cleon Peterson, The Collaborator (White), Print

Cleon Peterson, Lets Start A War (Black), Print

Cleon Peterson, Rule Of Law (Red), Print

Cleon Peterson, Mercenaries Black, Print

Cleon Peterson, Vengeance to Take, Print

Cleon Peterson, Out of Darkness II (Black), Print

Cleon Peterson, Poison in the Mind (Gold), Print

Cleon Peterson, Collecting Bodies, Print

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