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STATEMENT
My work concerns the usual content of daydreams and fears: time, animals, spaceships. It is, as you can see, abstract.
BIO
Layton Hower grew up in Appalachian Virginia and studied painting at Davidson College in North Carolina. In 2003, excited by the desert landscape of the American Southwest, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hower moved to Brooklyn in 2006 and lives with one woman, one baby and one cat.
Layton Hower has been called a “full-blown, head-gasket-shredding abstract expressionist” whose work is “knock-down, drag-out, heavy-duty, pedal-to-the-metal, . .” by critic Wesley Pulkka of the Albuquerque Journal.
CV
Solo Exhibitions
New York Public Library / Mulberry St. Branch. New York, NY. November 2 – January 2, 2008+9
Residue. Spread Gallery. Brooklyn, NY. November 21 – 23, 2008
Wyckoff Starr Cafe. Brooklyn, NY. November 3 – December 1, 2008
Incandescence. Artspace 116, Albuquerque NM. May 5 – June 16, 2006
Closed Circuit. Exhibit 208, Albuquerque NM. January 29 – Feburary 26, 2005
New Paintings. Senior Exhibition. Edward M. Smith Gallery, Davidson NC. May 1 – 7, 2003
Horizons. Alvarez Salon, Davidson NC. November 4 – December 1, 2002
Group Exhibitions, selected
Landscapes Metamorphic, Topologies Chromatoplastic. Centotto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
April 29-June 5, 2011
Flan. Studio 225, Beta Spaces. Brooklyn, NY. November 14, 2010
Terrae and the Ether. Centotto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. February, 2010
Space is the Case. Studio 225, Brooklyn, NY. November 6-8, 2009
SeenNotSeen: Metaphors of Beauty. Santiago’s Art Factory, Albuquerque, NM.
March 20 – April 30, 2009
Beta Spaces / an Arts in Bushwick Event. Norte Maar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. November 9 – 23, 2008
LaGrange National XXV Biennial. LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA. March 1 – April 24, 2008 Curator: Jeffrey Grove, High Museum, Atlanta GA
Organization of Independent Artists: Sixth Annual Juried Exhibition. New York Law School, New York, NY. March 10 – April 28, 2008
Bibliography
Pulkka, Wesley. “Hall Captures Music’s Energy”.  The Albuquerque Journal. June 4, 2006
Stevens, Amanda. “Artist Draws on Life Experiences as Inspiration for His Acrylic Paintings”. The Albuquerque Journal. May 5, 2006
Pulkka, Wesley. “Abstract Expressionist Lets Humor, Pathos Walk Hand in Hand on Canvases”. The Albuquerque Journal. Feburary. 6, 2005
Grants
Douglas Houchens Studio Art Award. Davidson College, Davidson NC. 2002
Bayles Travel Grant. Davidson College, Davidson NC. 2002
Education
Davidson College, Davidson NC, B. A. Studio Art. Â Â 2003