My work explores the cast-off byproducts of our progress. As the responsibility for evolution becomes our own and our technologies advance at an exponential rate, what is left by the wayside? What grows in the wake of our post-human existence? Is it a benign form of fungal growth that holds the cure for cancer and Alzheimer's? Is it some mechanical superflu that will return us to a pre-industrialized state? Could it be some self aware creature, growing under the sea that waits to destroy Tokyo? The periphery of our progress is as important as goals and aspirations that fuel the headlong rush forward. My work turns over rocks, looks in closets, and pokes that thing on slithering on the seashore. I hope to bring attention to wonder and fear that grow at the edges of our attention.

 

born: 1976, San Diego, California

education

San Diego State University, BFA, 2001
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA, 2006

selected publications

Clayton Llewellyn at Device Gallery. Art As Authority. November 7, 2009.
Monstrous Mashup, San Diego City Beat. October 2009
He has an Uncanny Eye for the Uncanny, San Diego Union Tribune. Sunday, May 3rd 2009

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Device Gallery. Ftagn. San Diego. 2009
Birdie-Taylor Memorial gallery. Evolutional Whimsy. San Diego, 2009
Crossing tracks Gallery. Spits and Drips (with Marie Llewellyn). San Diego. 2008
Art Produce Gallery. Deus Ex Machina. San Diego. 2006

selected group shows

Birdie-Taylor gallery, Eighth Annual Drawing Invitational. San Diego. 2008
Voice 1156. The Love Movement. San Diego. 2007
Bucheon Gallery, Untitled. San Francisco. 2006
Boehm Gallery. Reflections of the Figure. San Diego. 2009