Details
| First Name | Xayvier |
| Last Name | Haughton |
| Username | xayvier |
| Bio | Xayvier Haughton was born, in 1986 in Spanish Town , the subject of is art practice is cantered on African ceremonial aesthetics and symbolisms as iconoclasm, disrupting the white cube space through painting, installation, and sculpture. Paintings explore issues around fatherhood and masculinity and the divine black body. with the use of black pigments, to create compositions that place that create black icons surrealistic environments, that expand out into sculptures and installation. Haughton was educated the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in 2019 and earn his MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2022. Haughton’s work has been featured in the Jamaica Biennial in 2014 and 2017 and the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC)’s National Visual Arts Exhibition and Competition in 2015, as well as at the Red Easel pop-up gallery in 2016 and was part of a three-man exhibition Dark matter at the CAGE Gallery, Spring Break Art Show 2022, Eri Museum, 2022, and the Fowler Kellogg Gallery, Pratt House, 2023, commissioned murals both in public and private collections Haughton is currently a visiting professor at the Pratt Institute School of Visual Arts Fine Art Department. |
| Country of residence | United States (US) |
Statement
| Statement | My studio practice explores African ceremonial aesthetics and symbolisms as iconoclasm, disrupting the white cube space through painting, installation, and sculpture. Paintings explore issues around fatherhood and masculinity and the divine black body. with the use of black pigments, to create compositions that place that create black icons surrealistic environments, that create conversation between sculptures, assemblage installation. I am most attracted to degraded materials and objects, my interaction becomes conceptual gestures that create impromptu altars, “Vessels of Resistance and Healing. ” Iconographic imageries are synchronized with Obeah votives and repurposed objects such as wooden drawers, chairs, and shelves. Creating architectonic forms consisting of subtle shifts of tones and textures. |