Clayton Sean Horton

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Clayton “Sean” Horton (born 1975 in Dodd City, Texas, U.S.) is an artist, graphic designer, and proponent of other artists and musicians, often in the early stages of their career.

In 2006, Horton opened SUNDAY, a contemporary art gallery located in the burgeoning Lower East Side of New York City near other galleries such as CANADA, Reena Spaulings, and Rivington Arms. Since its inception SUNDAY has exhibited an intergenerational group of artists including Gayleen Aiken, Ed Blackburn, Ronnie Bass, Brian Bress, Peter Gallo, Joel Gibb, G.B. Jones, and Asuka Ohsawa – many of whom explore religious culture, regional vernacular, sexuality, and semiotics.

Before opening SUNDAY, Horton organized numerous exhibitions as an independent curator for galleries, non-profit art spaces, and museums – often focusing on Texas-based artists and nostalgia for regionalism.[1] He has contributed exhibition reviews and interviews to several publications including Art New England, Artl!es magazine, Glasstire.com, Sculpture magazine, and Ten by Ten magazine. In 2004 he co-founded a website focusing on the Boston art scene called Big RED and Shiny, of which he also served as editor for the first eight issues.

Horton exhibits his own art in various galleries and has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston among others. His first solo exhibition Please Don’t Lick the Art at Good / Bad Art Collective in Denton, Texas consisted of monochromatic panels of brightly colored saltwater taffy that dripped off of the panel onto the walls and floor throughout the opening night. More recent works from Lil’ Paintings Who Could at Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts consisted of “humble paintings [that merged] high Modernist Color Field strategies with a folk art sense of pathos.” [2] Intermittently since 2001, Horton has collaborated with Melissa Mudry as The Snowflake Factory to design packaging and promotional material for musicians and artists including Bosque Brown, Asthmatic Kitty, and Ann Craven.

His first involvement in the music industry was as the manager of Sound Source, a used music store in Grand Prairie, Texas in the mid to late 1990s. The store quickly earned a reputation for its extensive selection of rare and hard to find Christian alternative rock and Horton began to organize in-store performances with bands including Fine China, Pedro the Lion, The Prayer Chain, and Starflyer 59. Shortly thereafter, Horton founded The Red Crown Red Empire — an independent record label whose imprint was on the first releases for several bands including Ester Drang and the, now defunct, The Danes and Within (whose respective members went on to perform with The Earlies, Micah P. Hinson, and Scarling.