The Word from the Studio
IT HAS BEEN A WHILE!
Here it is the 4th quarter of 2023. I basically have not posted anything since the beginning of the pandemic. The pandemic definitely changed my
Asemics.org Asemic Writing Art by Cecil Touchon
I have just finished a new website dedicated to the drawings in my series of books Listening with the Eye. These works are now being
New Painting in the studio
Post Dogmatist Painting #1105 – 2020 – 60 x 84 inches – acrylic over paper on canvas In the case of many professional artists, many
Cecil Touchon Asemic Works on Display in Geneva, Switzerland
Scrivere Disegnando (“Writing by Drawing”) is an exhibition about writing and its shadow side. Its aim is to look back over a number of practices, from
Art and Text Exhibition
This exhibition will take place from November 1 through December 19, 2019 at the Ridgefield Library. This Art & Text show will take place simultaneously
FALL FORWARD: An Exploration of Language and Light – Timothy Yarger Fine Art
I have some works on view in Los Angeles at Timothy Yarger Fine Art. Stop in if you are in LA.
When did Cecil Touchon Die?
When doing a search for ‘Cecil Touchon’ on google I noticed that one of the suggested search terms from google is “when did Cecil Touchon
Touchon Collages in Sept./Oct. issue of Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review commissioned three images for an article in the September/October 2019 issue of Harvard Business Review. See the Article online HERE.
Diving Deep into the Creative Process, with Cecil Touchon
ANTRESE WOOD interviews Cecil Touchon in this Savvy Painter podcast.
New book: The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader
UPDATE: The Reader is now available on Amazon. BUY HERE. I have been working with Michael Jacobson of Post-Asemic Press to create a new book
Drawings from 1975
This year we are working on digitizing all of my work all the way back to 1975 when I was first in college in Saint
New Works by Cecil Touchon at Canfin Gallery
“New Works” at Canfin Gallery in Tarrytown, New York January 26 — February 17, 2019 – New paintings and collages by Cecil Touchon on canvas on view. Installation shot of
Gala at the Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo,TX
Saturday Night January 26, 2019 Rosalia and I went to the gala event celebrating Bill and Pam Campbell at the Amarillo Museum of Art. It
Touchon Paintings at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2019
J F Gallery in West Palm Beach participated with some of my works in the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2019 art fair Jan 10-13,
New Works by Cecil Touchon at Canfin Gallery 09/2018
NEW WORKS BY CECIL TOUCHON New Artist & New Works at Canfin Gallery August 27 — September 24, 2018 Canfin Gallery in Tarrytown, New York just
Blotting Things Out
Three antique journal pages with the writing blotted out with white ink.
Exhibition at Tinney Contemporary August 2018
Altered Language: New Work by Cecil Touchon and Niels Shoe Meulma, Contemporary Abstract Paintings.
At Play in the Utopian Matrix | Artist Statement | 2001 |
AT PLAY IN THE UTOPIAN MATRIX Artist Statement 2001 Regarding the title ‘AT PLAY IN THE UTOPIAN MATRIX’ Utopia of course is an imaginary place
Patch the Fourth Wall Exhibition Statement at New Gallery, Houston, TX | 2007 |
Patch the Fourth Wall July, 2007 All of the works presented in this show were selected for their relationship to fundamental experiments in abstraction and
The Last Vispo Group Exhibition and Catalog | 2010 |
PRESS RELEASE The Last Vispo at Common Ground Art GalleryCOMMON GROUND ART GALLERY in conjunction withRAMPIKE MagazineVery Proudly Present T H E L A S
Everybody’s Fine (2009) Movie
Everybody’s Fine (2009) Movie A couple of my paintings were used in the filming of the movie: Everybody’s Fine (2009) in the guest bedroom and
50th ANNIVERSARY OF CONCRETE POETRY University of Stuttgart – Stuttgart, Germany
50 ANIVERSARIO DE LA POESIA CONCRETE50th ANNIVERSARY OF CONCRETE POETRY – 2006 University of Stuttgart – Stuttgart, Germany PARTICIPANTES – PARTICIPANTS Giovanni Fontana, Adam Fong, Adolf,
Thirty Years of Fluxing Around – Cecil Touchon | 2005 |
Thirty Years of Fluxing Around | 2005 | There are those things which artists often do as their ‘serious work’ and then there are all
In the Shadow, in the Seclusion – collage poetry
In the Shadow, in the Seclusion Book V #18 – Monday, January 07, 2008 I lived in the shadow,in the seclusionby a smoky, dark dangerwith
Interview with Elizabeth Youmans for SVPN Magazine Ketchum, ID | 2017 |
Interview with Elizabeth Youmans for SVPN Magazine Ketchum, ID for the March exhibition at Gilman Contemporary Do you primarily work with paint and collage? What
Interview in Artscope Magazine | 2014 |
Interview in Artscope Magazine Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014, 2:56 pm Cecil Touchon now exhibiting at Lanoue Fine Art in Boston. Cecil Touchon fits into a
ALTERED LANGUAGE: NEW WORK BY CECIL TOUCHON AND NIELS SHOE MEULMAN | 2018 |
ALTERED LANGUAGE: NEW WORK BY CECIL TOUCHON AND NIELS SHOE MEULMAN Tinney Contemporary | 237 5th Avenue North | Nashville, TN, 37219 ph: (615) 255-7816 Exhibition Dates: July
Magazines and Blogs
Luxe Magazine | NYC edition | May 2018 Luxe Magazine | New York-based designer Bella Mancini 2007 ELLE Decor Elle Decor | Watermill Interior in
Sears Peyton Gallery | NYC | LA
Sears Peyton Gallery 210 Eleventh Avenue, Suite 802 (between 24th + 25th Streets) | New York, NY 10001 | Phone: 212.966.7469 | searspeyton.com | Email: info@searspeyton.com “Sears-Peyton represents the work
Nuart Gallery | Santa Fe, NM
Nuart Gallery – 670 Canyon Road Santa Fe, New Mexico | Nuartgallery.com Established at the beginning of the 21st Century, Nüart Gallery’s mission has always been to
Cecil Touchon: Cut & Paste – Interview By Matthew Rose 2009
Cecil Touchon: Cut & Paste – Interview By Matthew Rose 2009 [Matthew Rose] Collage has a long and rich history in Modern Art, beginning formally with Picasso’s
Massurrealist Overload Exhibition | 2003 |
Massurrealist Overload In the Studio with Cecil Touchon Collage works in Sound, Text and Image Opening 5.31.03 Living the last four years in the central
LINES: Tony Magar and Cecil Touchon 2014 [Exhibition]
Exhibition LINES: Tony Magar and Cecil Touchon at Laura Rathe Gallery Houston, Texas
TYPOGRAPHY BETWEEN ILLUSTRATION AND ART | 2012 |[publication]
featured work: post dogmatist painting no.505 | acrylic on canvas | 60 x 48 inches this painting available at Nuart Gallery in Santa Fe TYPOGRAPHY BETWEEN ILLUSTRATION AND ART Includes
Channeling the West by Tony Magar and Cecil Touchon 2012 [exhibition]
Touchon’s serene and abstract works fuse drawing, painting and collage. Seemingly random and abstract, Touchon’s thoughtful collages liberate the viewer from everyday meanings so that they are left to consider the visual impact of his work.
At Play in the Utopian Matrix 2001 [exhibition]
From William Campbell Contemporary Art for the Exhibition “At Play in the Utopian Matrix 2001 William Campbell Contemporary Art | 4935 Byers Avenue | Fort Worth, TX
IN A BROKEN TONGUE [exhibition]
IN A BROKEN TONGUE | 24 MAY – 9 JUNE 2013 | Nuart Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Cecil Touchon is internationally renowned for abstractions that are
BEFORE THE BEGINNING [exhibition]
Internationally renowned artist Cecil Touchon creates elegant abstractions derived from the typographical tradition.
SUBLITERAL POETICS [Exhibition]
Cecil Touchon at Nuart Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico press release – 27 OCTOBER – 12 NOVEMBER 2017
‘Beyond Words’ 2015 Exhibition at WCCA in Fort Worth, Texas
Beyond Words, an exhibition of new painting and collage works by Cecil Touchon, will exhibit the latest work from Touchon’s ongoing exploration of typographic abstraction, wherein pre-existing letter forms are deconstructed and extemporaneously re-assembled to create what the artist calls a “chance aesthetic.”
Light and Shadow
The use of both space and light are, for me, primarily theoretical and utilitarian as mentioned above so I am not too concerned with realism or accuracy or, for that matter, consistency.
Silent Witnesses for Péter Forgács – [collage poetry]
…and I saw the scissors.
at the edge of the unthinkable
giving a certain emotional meaning which never existed before
and it’s very hard to feel how long an image should last
and put it together in [the] mind.
Fake News [collage poetry]
So let me get this right.
My reaction was instinctive,
I’m sick of the #FakeNews.
Time to do my part to get out the TRUTH!
Monsters in Trousers – [collage poetry]
Concepts are monsters that are born out of their ruins.
Monsters in trousers baggy and grey,
never pursuing anything beyond their own ends.