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Geometric shapes in Brilliant Colors
Cecil Touchon (1956-present) is a painter, performance artist, collector, draftsman, photographer, and curator. But it is through his collage work that he has made his most lasting mark. He was born in Austin, Texas. He is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Touchon is co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group and director of the group’s Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists. Touchon is best known for his Typographic Abstraction works that “Free the letters from their burden of being bearers of meaning.” Touchon has been involved with Massurrealism with his sound collage works as well as poetry collage are the concepts explored in his various forms of audio and literary techniques involve his theories related to what he calls the Massurreality – an overreaching popular culture mind world maintained by daily exposure to mass media. Throughout his career, which spans over 30 years, Touchon has been collected worldwide and figures prominently in the Massurrealism movement. Touchon is a founding member of the 1987 Post-Dogmatist Group as well as a respected member of the Art Mail and Fluxus communities. Touchon’s work was exhibited in the 2001 and 2009 Venice Biennale and can be found in more than 45 corporate and international collections.
Selected collections include American Airlines Delta Airlines,
Addison Jet Port, K. T. I. Corporation, IBM, HBO, Swiss Banking Services, Longview Museum and Art Center, Southeast Bank, Haynes & Boone, Citibank, First Boston, Fidelity Investments Co., Boston, MA Southwest Bank, and Prudential Insurance Company.