Dayton Clark
Education
University of Washington
Master of Architecture
University of Oklahoma
BFA, Fine Arts
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About
Dayton Clark is an emerging artist and educator. He began working with the University of Oklahoma as adjunct faculty in 2020 and now serves as a lecturer teaching first-year design and architecture theory & criticism. Dayton’s personal work explores space as a hinge between painting and architecture. His foundational paintings endeavored to trick the eye with illusionistic space to explore how artifice can manufacture new truths. Architectural motifs regiment the invented space in this work and speak to spatial projection’s role in perpetuating power relations. Through further development under the influence of tectonics and phenomenology, Dayton’s recent work has come to focus more on the work’s surface itself. These paintings muddle the line between the material surface and its painted representation in order to increase the viewer’s sensitivity to their immediate environment.
Dayton grew up in Norman and remained until he received his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts at OU in 2015. He received his Master’s in Architecture at the University of Washington in 2019. Since returning to his hometown, Dayton has taken a renewed interest in Oklahoma’s art community. He has entered solo and group art exhibitions and has participated as a member of Oklahoma City’s ART GROUP and the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. Most recently, he has traveled to the island of Crete as an artist in residence at the Mudhouse Residency.