Clayton Pond

Clayton Pond was born in Long Island, New York, in 1941.  He received a B.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1961 and an M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York in 1966.  His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, and the Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington.  His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.  As a second-generation Pop artist, Pond uses a great deal of high-energy color in his paintings and his prints, often outlining his objects in contrasting colors.  He is interested in recording the obsessions and possessions of Americans.  His early prints were close-up depictions of domestic objects such as toasters, telephones, and toilet seats; a later series involved leisure activities, humorously depicting people golfing and skiing.  His most recent pieces are large-scale constructions of high-tech machines and printing presses.

*Excerpted from Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.

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