Clayton V. Colvin

Email: [email protected]

Education

2005: MFA (Painting), University of , Tuscaloosa, AL

2003: MAEd (Art Education), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

1999: BA (Art History) New York University, New York, NY

Exhibition Record

2010 solo exhibition: Fiction, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL Fiction, Caseworks, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN group shows: Gulf Arts Now, Space 301 Off Centre, Mobile, Alabama "TKAM 2010: To Kill a Mockingbird-Awakening America's Conscience," organized by Alabama Humanities Foundation, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and Stonehenge Gallery, Montgomery The Price Is Right, David Lusk gallery, Memphis TN

2009: Fiction, solo exhibition, Amanda Schedler Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL Drawing on Alabama 2009, Biggins Hall, Auburn, Al ---- Space 301, Mobile, AL The Sketchbook Project Volume 3, Art House Gallery, , GA ---- Museum of Contempory Art DC, Washington DC ---- Chris' Jazz Café, Philadelphia, PA ---- Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA ---- Antena Gallery, Chicago, IL ---- Soulard Art Market, ST Loius MO ---- 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ---- (MODA), Atlanta

2008: solo exhibtion Pier and Ocean and Main St., Amanda Schedler Fine Arts, Birmingham solo exhibtion Pier and Ocean and Main St., Material, Memphis, TN ARTPAPERS: 9th annual art auction, juried benefit for ARTPAPERS magazine, Atlanta

2007: le papier (part) deux: group exhibition of works on paper, Geschiedle, Chicago, IL FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE (curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike), Circus of Books, Los Angeles FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE (curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike), McMurdo Station, Antartica SuckaFreeJams: the Remainder Gallery, Birmingham, AL Dia de los Muertos: Barehands Gallery, Birmingham, AL Satellite Gone: solo show, The Upper Room, Birmingham, AL Popular Digest: Clayton V. Colvin and Pat Snow, Barehands, Birmingham, AL

2006 Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! (curated by Anat Ebgi,, and Jose Carlos Diaz),, Gescheidle Chicago, IL IRAQ (curated by Lynn Longe), Gulfspace, Fairhope, AL Night of 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE (curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike), Art Basel Miami Beach, FL Made in Birmingham (curated by Brett Levine), Space 301, Mobile, AL Unselfconscious Alabama, A Farmhouse Gallery, Seale, AL Politics, Politics: Questions for the New South Series, Space-One-Eleven, Bham, AL Contour, (curated by Jon Cofffelt) for Schedler Minchin FA, Birmingham, AL

2005 Space Cadet, solo show , Material, Memphis, TN Birmingham’s Best Young Arists, Schedler Minchin FA, Birmingham,A Night 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, NY, NY Worm-Hole Laboratory’s Art-Official X-mas, @ Frisbee, Miami Beach Worm-Hole Laboratory’s Art-Official X-mas, @Queen’s Nail Annex, San Francisco UAB Faculty Show, Soon-Bok Lee Sellers Art Gallery, Hoover, AL Postcards from the Gulf, Gulf Art Space, Fairhope, AL

2004 5 from 4, Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, Alabama Reoccurring Exchange, International University, Miami, Florida Dirty South!, Worm-hole Laboratory, Miami, Florida, Curator : Jose-Carlos Diaz

2003 Fear and Consumption, ASL Gallery, University of Alabama Chaos, Turncoats, , Magic City Art Connection, Lynn Park, Birmingham, Alabama

2002 G.O.R.A. Inmotus, , Atlanta G.O.R.A. Inmotus, Barehands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama

2001 Superheroes, Three Ring Circus, New Orleans, Louisiana

2000 No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

Selected Curated Exhibitions

Werk, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, May 2010

Poems and Paintings from Memphis, November 2009, Amanda Schedler Fine Arts

Registering the Invisible, Space 301 off-centre, featuring work from Mobile and Baldwin Co. schools, Ashley Oates, Richard Curtis, and University of South Alabama Photography students

Alvin C. Sella, recent paintings, Space 301 (Sept 6th –November 12th) featureing work by Alvin Sella, and then work by former Sella students: Pat Snow, Katherine B., Dominic, Nick Davis, Jerry Roland, and Ty Smith.

Southern Gothic Now, Space 301 off-centre (May 9 – July 6, 2008), featuring works from Chris Jancke , Doug Baulos, Merrilee Challiss, Greg Hopins, Amy Pleasant, Maysay Craddock, Julie Puttgen, TM Sisters, and others.

Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 off-centre (Mobile’s Centre for the Living Arts), featuring works from Buzz Spector, Francis Alys, William Christenberry, Lance Winn, Christopher McNulty, Greg Hopkins, Buffy Rinehart, and others

A Time for War or Peace: Art that confronts the realities of the present, Space 301 off-centre, featuring work from Steve Mumford, Multi-national Force-Iraq,, Beth Edwards, Erika Somogyi, among others (Co-curated By David McCann and Clayton Colvin, essay by Clayton Colvin)

Life is But Dream: Contemporary figurative photography, Space 301 off-centre, featuring works from Ryan McGinley, Julie Moos, Demetrius Oliver, Aaron Young, among others.

Contexture: fabric, fashion, fantasy, Space 301 off-centre, featuring works from Pinky Bass, Alabama Chanin, Knittaplease.com, Hiroshi Tanabe, Xiang yang, among others.

..and you must make a friend of horror, The Upper Room, Birmingham, Al, featuring Heather Blackwell, Natalie Benedetti, Samuel Nyholm, and Pat Snow

Art and Place 1: Place as Muse, Space 301 (Mobile’s Centre for the Living Arts), featuring works from Jen DeNike, Johannes Nyholm, Paul Slocum, Jeremy Earhart, Tom Moody, BEIGE, and Bryce Speed, among others.

November: a selection of works from UAB undergraduates, Stealtharts, featuring: Suzy Moorer, Jill Ivins, Gene Ferreiro, and Michael James Lukacovic

Information in Formation, UAB Visual Art Gallery, featuring the work of Billy Apple, John Baldessari, John Simon Jr., Brian Bishop, and others. (Co-curated by Clayton Colvin and Brett Levine)

Selected Public programs and Presentations

2011 Visiting Artist lecture and critiques, Florida State University

2010 Fiction, Spring Hill College

2008 Visiting Artist lecture and critiques, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN

Re-imagining Architecture, a discussion with guest Sarah Urist Green, guest curator of the Space 301 exhibition, Amongst the Ruins

Field Recordings, a visiting artist lecture to the art department at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL

Registering the Invisible, an event featuring Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham Art Historian Dr. Jessica Dallow and artists Ashley Oates, Brian Evans, and Rich Curtis.

Southern Gothic Now, a gallery talk featuring artists from the exhibition.

Alvin C. Sella’s Recent Paintings Considered, a gallery talk discussing Sella’s paintings and legacy as an artist and educator

2007 GreenSpace, Space 301, a roundtable discussion with Dr David Nelson(Univ. of South Alabama Biologist), Harry DeLorme (Telfair Museum Curator of Education), and Cassi Calloway (of the Mobile Bay Keapers)

Life is But a Dream: The Ethics of Photojournalism, a roundtable discussion with Mobile Press-Register staff photographers

Life is But a Dream: the Poetic nature of Photography, a discussion with University of South Alabama’s Rita Skiadas

Contexture: fabric, fashion, fantasy , a roundtable discussion featuring Univ. of South Alabama’s Dr. Elizabeth Richards, and exhibiting artists Pinky Bass, Matt Posey, and Alex Podesta

2006 Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 (Mobile’s Centre for the living Arts), a roundtable with Dr. Jessica Dallow, Jen DeNike, Johannes Nyholm, and Chris Lawson

WHIL 91.3 FM (NPR) Spring Hill College, discussion of Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 (Mobile’s Centre for the Living Arts)

Professional References:

Douglas Baulos MFA Assistant Prof of Foundations, University of Alabama at Birmingham [email protected] (205)566-9672 Fax: 205.975.2836

Brett Levine MA Director, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham [email protected] (205)934-0815 Fax: 205.975.2836

Dr. Jessica Dallow M.A., Ph.D. Assoc.Chair, Asst. Professor of Contemporary Art History, UAB [email protected] (205) 222-6451

Professional Experience

2010 Adjunct Instructor, University of Alabama ART 210 (Drawing II)

2002 – 2010 Adjunct Instructor, University of Alabama at Birmingham Courses taught as of Dec 2008: ARS 300, 400, 500 (Advanced Drawing Seminar) ARS 302 (Figure Drawing) ARS 100 (Introduction to Drawing) ARS 101 (Introduction to 2D Design)

2007-2008 Curator of Education / Artistic Director, Space 301, Mobile, Al Worked with the President of the Centre for the Living Arts and the CLA’s Board of Directors to manage fiscal budget, establish a strategic plan, and continue the mission of Space 301, a non-profit in Mobile, Alabama Under the President of the Centre for the Living Arts, directed the education and exhibition programs of a non-profit contemporary art space Worked with the Space 301 Arts Advisory Committee to establish Committee Bylaws Planned Space 301’s return to use of its 8500 square foot gallery and education facility Wrote grants and received funding for education and exhibition programs Designed and organized major exhibitions for Space 301’s 2500 square foot exhibition space Standardized Space 301’s guest curator program Activated a marketing campaign involving Television, radio, and internet Designed multiple disciplinary tour and outreach program, including project using GPS devices to create drawings with over 700 Mobile area students from grade 3 to University level

2005 – 2007 Director, stealtharts, an independent space in Birmingham, AL Organized and coordinated 10 exhibitions a year Managed property Web design

2006 Adjunct Instructor, University of Alabama Courses taught: ARS 110 (Introduction to drawing)

2003-2004 Professor of Record, University of Alabama Courses taught: ARS 210 (Beginning Drawing) ARS 110 (Introduction to Drawing) ARS 130 (Introduction to 2D Design)

2004 Studio Instructor, Birmingham, Museum of Art Courses taught: Painting (Abstract Painting, using the collection as a reference) Drawing (homeschool students, ages 7-15)

2003-Present Independent Curator Designed, organized, and coordinated exhibitions with: The Alabama School of Math and Science, Space 301 (Mobile’s centre for the Arts), The UAB Visual Art Gallery, The Upper Room, The Arts Students League of the University of Alabama, and stealtharts

2000 - 2001 Team Leader, the Wooden Box, New Orleans, La 3D problem solving; designing and fabricating custom crates and boxes for art and antiques supervised 2 employees, managing materials and time

2000 Preparator, Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, La worked with curators, dealers, artists, collectors, and public installed exhibitions organized the packing, shipping, and storage of art work designing and fabricating custom crates and boxes

1999 - 2000 Preparator, New Orleans Museum of Art worked in a team of 6 preparators to install, pack, ship, and store art work and exhibition materials

1998-1999 Artist Assistant worked in various capacities for artists such as Fred Tomaselli, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Xu Bing

1996-1998 Intern, Jack Tilton Gallery worked in public relations, artist relations, records and library resources, exhibition materials design and fabrication.

Colvin Philosophy of Teaching

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue." –Henry James

My pedagogic philosophy comes from my own experience and from pragmatists like Henry James and John Dewey. I subscribe to their ideas of tying education to experience and consciousness, and the stress they place on awareness and adaptability. My ultimate goal in teaching is to help students become better creative and critical thinkers. To this end, I introduce techniques and concepts, provide historical examples, and encourage experimentation. I hope to simultaneously cultivate an understanding of traditional approaches and a license to question those traditions.

One of my college professors once told once told our class that he looked forward to the day when we would tell him that we didn’t need him anymore. That suggestion made me conscious of my role in my own education. The experience has stuck with me and influences my stance as an educator with an understanding of limits, a respect for generations, and the knowledge that each subjective perspective is limited to a fragile context that will be, if it isn’t already, obsolete. I am motivated to push my own relevancy and to help students understand their own participation in the world. This stance is a liberating force, allowing students to pursue their interests with a healthy dose of abandon.

In the classroom, and in my own drawings, I approach each moment in its own context and with a specific goal. I enjoy constantly adjusting my practice in response to new situations. Similarly, I try to cultivate this sense of exploration and experimentation in my students. Once they begin to understand their license to expand and enrich experience through drawing, my role becomes that of a collaborator in the discovery and refinement process. I believe that enabling the curiosity latent in all students allows the students to teach themselves more effectively than I ever could.

Encouraging an appetite for creative and critical thought begins with introducing students to possibilities by imparting technical skills and presenting historical examples. After the initial foundation of skills is established students are encouraged to conduct experiments of their own. I emphasize that there is no failure in this process, as each moment contributes to the student’s overall experience. I define my success as a teacher not by assessing final projects, but by evaluating my students’ abilities to navigate the creative process.