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Mustafa Ali Clayton, Lala and Chewy’s Picture Day, 2024

Mustafa Ali Clayton

Lala and Chewy’s Picture Day, 2024
glazed stoneware
17 x 22 x 27 in (43.2 x 55.9 x 68.6 cm)
Pedestal: 39 x 24 x 25 in
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Mustafa Ali Clayton (b. 1978, Los Angeles, CA) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist who uses organic and sustainable materials to create ceramic busts as well as wooden assemblage plinths, which...
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Mustafa Ali Clayton (b. 1978, Los Angeles, CA) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist who uses organic and sustainable materials to create ceramic busts as well as wooden assemblage plinths, which are an integral part of his work. In his practice, he combines traditional and contemporary techniques while incorporating elements of history and lineage through oil painting, quilting, beading, ceramics, and assemblage. Using materials like fibers, clay, wax, wood, beads, and pigments, Clayton expands upon his intimate, labor-intensive process, to reach balance. The works frequently highlight distorted physical attributes, such as wide eyes, small ears, button noses, or warped facial proportions that the artist utilizes to direct attention to the subtle distinctions between reality and the artificial. Some anime influences are evident and with mirrored ceramic busts and wooden assemblages, he challenges the concept of classical portraiture. Clayton's works reframe figurative traditions as acts of soft defiance within a historical context.


Clayton has exhibited in the US and abroad in Europe. He has won several awards and grants such as the 2024 Frieze Acquisition fund recipient, in 2020 The Artist + Activist Relief Fund Grant and The Soze Foundation, TaskForce and Invisible Hand. Clayton’s works are in the permanent collection California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA and the collection of Rubell Family Foundation, in Palm Beach, FL and Washington, D.C and in the private collection of Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, Palm Beach, FL. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Next Contemporary in Toronto Canada, Art Basel, Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach with Jenkins Johnson Gallery, and Block Party II at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY. In 2024, Clayton was in the summer residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
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