There are artists who transcend style and subject matter. Silvio Gayton is one of them. A colorist by nature, Gayton paints images that evidence purpose. Although influenced by a variety of artistic movements, he creates with his own identity and passion, the results of which are works that cannot be easily categorized. Shapes, for example are inconspicuously blended into thick layers of mixed media, with impressionistic brush strokes serving as the main character of his subject matter. Textures, on the other hand, give birth to the meaning of his forms. Design and lines also fill Gayton’s canvases, all diffused into polychromatic compositions ruled by the theme at hand. The power and intensity of his hues and his exuberant use of the visual spectrum swirl, intensely portraying natural drama. Reality and immediacy – elements as important as imagination, are integrated thematically into this drama, giving his works decisive visual impact.
Silvio Gayton is a painter who, as deliberate as he is spontaneous, believes that the intensity of his works demonstrate how form and color comprise the essence of his expression. Some years ago, his visceral and visual style was coined “Kaleidoscopic Expressionism.” Boundless in its possibilities, it was the only artistic movement that best described the breadth of Gayton’s works. The Miami Herald, in fact, described his works as “images that instantly communicate the intensity of gesture and the emotion of circumstance… A sensory explosion that conveys creativity, yields presence and fleeting expresses the continuum of the human condition… the instantaneous forever and the everlasting now.”
In his latest works, Gayton has reinvented himself with brush strokes and color that go much farther than just hues. His works oscillate deliberately between solid form and abstraction, walking a delicate line between reality and perception. He continues to present himself with his characteristic richness of color, but now with a perspective that goes beyond suggestions of form. Image and color, for example, now complement each other more than ever, creating enigmatic crossroads that
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promptly engulf and even transcend his forms into existential-like imagery.
If Gayton’s previous works could be described as a colorful and almost algorithmic convergence of textures and designs, his most recent works are formidably structured in a different manner. They continue to depict images and fragments of a kaleidoscope, but use of “black” and the richness of other colors applied to the canvas now have evolved in visual impact. Density no longer defines his brush strokes, but rather produces ethereal images and subtext that articulate Gayton’s appreciation of the world around him. His forms, in fact, suddenly move beyond static from and reinvent themselves with spontaneous expression, still thoroughly imbued with the same enigmatic beauty of his previous works. Somehow, this new aesthetic serves as the perfect transition for Gayton. His previous works offer just as much luster, but they represented a vision that distanced the artist from his themes… although never his images. In his most recent works, there is no contradiction and no distancing. Proximity and composition now create subtext, full of poetic, spectral iridescence and well-emblazoned beauty. Canvas and paper don’t pretend to depict anything. They are simply the medium for Gayton’s esoteric inner-intelligence and for his depiction of imagery that is more than just mere concepts… nontransferable or fragmentary. Gayton’s imagery, in fact, implodes into semi-solid visual sensations that create a harmonious perception of reality.
In the art of Silvio Gayton, painting once again flourishes. Beyond theme, language or categorization, his works are a glorious celebration of the graphic arts. With his latest barrage of polychromatic images, Silvio Gayton has launched his own crusade – one compelled to let us know that art is forever defined by multiple perspectives that shape the essence of perception. Expressing these perspectives is an integral facet of Gayton’s work and, moreover, is emblematic of an artist who is both mature and passionate about its work. Through his visual message as well as its conceptualization and execution, Gayton has created a body of work that now stands alone, both alive and immortal.
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