Announcement by University at Buffalo Art Galleries for Calyton Pond's retrospective at UB Anderson Gallery Opening Friday, April 10th, 5-8pm. The announcement shows a photo of the artist standing next to two of his paintings. The Artist as white hair and is dressed in a paint spattered denim shirt and jeans. The paintings are brightly and imaginatively colored pop-art compositions, one showing the top of a water heater in front of floral wallpaper and the other showing the top of an ornate column. The text of the announcement reads: Clayton Pond's paintings, screenprints, and sculptural constructions vibrate with saturated color. They bring buoyancy to the ordinary-painstak-ingly rendered details of domestic environments, mechanisms from machinery, details of streetside columns-are all imbued with curiosity and humor. The works ask us: what may be gained by careful attention to our surroundings? How can we reintroduce curiosity into our everyday maneuverings through our landscape? Shortly after graduating from the Pratt Institute with an MFA, Clayton Pond joined the Martha Jackson Gallery, which held his first New York City painting exhibition in 1968. This exhibition concludes our series of shows responding to UB Art Galleries 25th Anniversary.

Clayton Pond’s color offers the viewer a charming, idiosyncratic interpretation of the world

Clayton Pond (American, b. 1941) is a painter and silkscreen printmaker whose work is immediately recognizable for its vibrant color relationships and charming, idiosyncratic interpretation of the world. Pond was one of the early artists to employ silkscreen printing, or serigraphy, in a fresh, distinctly personal way (rather than for commercial use). In 1966, he established his studio in Soho, helping to pioneer what would become one of the world’s most celebrated art scenes. Represented for many years by the Martha Jackson Gallery, Pond’s work is in the permanent collections at MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the National Air and Space Museum, and more. He currently works out of his studio in Atlanta, Georgia. A retrospective celebrating his work will be on view through the summer at the UB Anderson Gallery in Buffalo, NY, opening April 10, 2026.

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My Last Chair Ever
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Edition of 100, Silkscreen and Giclée Print, 35 x 26″

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