Cleon Peterson 'The Power Plant' + 'Lulled To Sleep' Prints Available

Artist: Cleon Peterson
Title: The Power Plant + Lulled To Sleep
Medium: Hand Pulled 2 Color Screen Prints
Size: 13 x 18 Inches each
Edition: 75 each
Price: $150/Set

Cleon Peterson is an American artist born in 1973 in Seattle who now lives and works in Los Angeles. He is best known for stark graphic paintings that show stylized figures locked in violent conflict. His scenes explore themes of power domination and societal collapse rendered in a limited palette of black white and blood red. The compositions recall ancient Greek vase painting yet feel urgently contemporary as uniformed aggressors brutalize anonymous victims in endless cycles.

Peterson survived a turbulent youth that included drug addiction and incarceration before earning a BFA from Art Center College of Design in 2004 and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2006. He began his creative career in graphic design working for Shepard Fairey Studio Number One where he refined his bold flat aesthetic. In 2016 he created Endless Sleep a monumental mural painted directly beneath the Eiffel Tower for Nuit Blanche Paris. His work has been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and galleries across New York London Hong Kong and Sydney. Rather than offering moral judgment Peterson presents a mirror to humanity darkest impulses inviting viewers to confront the brutality that underpins systems of control.