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Torey Thornton

Torey Thornton (Born 1990) is active/lives in New York.  Torey Thornton is known for Abstract form painting.

In 25-year-old Thornton’s buoyant paintings, abstracted forms resembling parking lots, amoebas, globes, and gigantic flowers float amongst each other and flatten onto the same plane. This year—following a breakout show at Moran Bondaroff in late 2014—Thornton’s deft experiments with pictorial space filled Stuart Shave/Modern Art’s London gallery in a celebrated solo show and punctuated group exhibitions at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, CANADA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Now, from his big, light-filled studio in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy, Thornton readies for his first institutional solo exhibition at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, slated to open in February 2016.

“What makes Torey’s work so appealing is his employment of purposely ambiguous imagery, which challenges viewers to approach his paintings from a very personal point of view,” explains Holly Hughes, Albright-Knox’s curator for the collection.

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