Clayton Llewellyn (Lewallen)
Current Positions
Adjunct Instructor
Drawing and composition, Figure Drawing, Figure Painting, 2D Design.
Mira Costa Community College.
Spring 2008 - Present
Adjunct Instructor
Illustration, 2D Design, Drawing 2, 3 & 4, and Intro to art.
CuyamacaCommunity College. San Diego.
Spring 2007 - Present
Licensed Tattoo Artist.
Vishuddha Creatives.
San Diego.
October 2010 - Present.
Education
San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Art: Painting. 2006.
San Diego State University
Bachelor of Arts: Painting/Printmaking/Photography. 2001.
San Diego City College
Drawing, life drawing and design classes. 1994 - 2000.
Solo/Two-person Exhibitions
Koan
Solo show. Boehm Gallery. San Marcos. 2011.
Total Protonic Reversal (with Joshua Eggleton)
Two-man show. Kruglack Gallery. Oceanside. 2010.
Ftagn
Solo Show. Device Gallery. San Diego. 2009.
Evolutional Whimsy.
Solo show. Birdie-Taylor Gallery. San Diego. 2009.
Spits andDrips (with Marie Llewellyn)
Two-man show. Crossing Tracks Gallery. San Diego. 2008.
Deus ex Machina
Solo show. Art Produce Gallery. San Diego. 2006.
Curated Shows
No Apparent Function
Curator. Group Show. San Diego Art department. San Diego. CA. 2012
Vinculum
Curator. Group Show. Art Produce Gallery. San Diego. CA. 2010
Hung Drawn & Quartered
Curator. Group show. Swell Gallery, San Francisco. 2005.
Selected Group Exhibitions
A Study in Balance
Group Show. Vishuddha Creatives. San Diego. 2016
Gesture and Mark
Group Show. Southwestern College Gallery. San Diego. 2016
Harvest
Group Show. Vishuddha Creatives. San Diego. 2015
Applied Pressure
Group Show. Frank M Doyle Arts Pavilion. Orange County. 2015
An Honest Medium
Group Show. Birdie-Taylor Gallery. San Diego. 2014
Drawing Backwards
Group Show. CAP Gallery. Laguna Beach. 2014
Altars and Icons
Group Show. Vishuddha Creatives. San Diego. 2013
Cabinet of curiosities
Group Show. Vishuddha Creatives. San Diego. 2013
Petals to the metal
Group Show. Vishuddha Creatives. San Diego. 2012
The Sharp End of the Stick
Group Show. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. Orange County. 2012
Piratology
Group Show. Vishuddha Creatives. San Diego 2011
The Game Show.
West Coast Drawing Group show. The Art Department. San Diego. 2011.
Art Haul
Mobile Group Show. New York. 2009.
Reflections of the Figure.
West Coast Drawing Group show. Boehm Gallery. San Diego. 2009.
Fruit Of the Soul
Group Benefit. San Diego. 2008.
Influences
Group Show with West Coast Drawing. Art Institute, San Diego. 2008.
EighthAnnual Drawing Invitational
Group show. Birdie-Taylor memorial library gallery, San Diego. 2008.
It Feels Like the Third Time.
Group Show. The Art of Framing. San Diego. 2007.
Drawn Together
Group Show with West Coast Drawing. Art Produce. San Diego. 2007.
The Love Movement
Group Show. Voice 1156. San Diego. 2007.
Seventh Annual Drawing Invitational
Group show. Birdie-Taylor memorial library gallery, San Diego. 2007.
Love Handles
Group Show. Crossing Tracks Gallery, San Diego. 2007.
Untitled
Group show. Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco. 2006.
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition
Group show. Fort Mason. San Francisco. 2006.
Chow Fun Ho-down
Group show. Swell Gallery, San Francisco. 2005.
Nine Square Grid, New Meanings
Group show. Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco. 2005.
Create Fixate
Group show. Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles. 2005.
Lub Dub
Group show. Crossing Tracks, San Diego. 2005.
Machine Gun in Clown's Hand
Group Show. Uno Gallery, Los Angeles. 2004.
Considering Red
Group show. Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco. 2004.
Fortune Cookie Classic
Group show. Swell Gallery, San Francisco. 2004.
Pop Rocks
Group show. Planet Rooth Studios, San Diego. 2004.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye Messner
Televised group show on The Surreal Life, Los Angeles. 2004.
Overnight Sensations
Group show. Ice Gallery, San Diego. 2004.
New! Photography
Group Show. The Muse Gallery, San Diego. 2003.
Hocus Pocus
Group Show. Social Club and Gallery, San Diego. 2001.
Propaganda Project
Group Show. O.T.F. Contemporary Art Gallery, San Diego. 2001.
Cutting Viscera
Group Show. O.T.F. Contemporary Art Gallery, San Diego. 2001.
Cockeyed Colossus
Three-man show. Flor y Canto Gallery, San Diego. 2000.
Industreel Lites and Majick
Three-man show. Flor y Canto Gallery, San Diego. 2000.
Faculty shows at Southwestern, Cyumaca, Mira Costa, and Palomar.
San Diego. CA. 2005 - present
Publications
Ftagn
Artasauthority.com. October 14, 2009
Monstrous Mashup
San Diego City Beat. October 2009
He has an Uncanny Eye for the Uncanny
San Diego Union Tribune. Sunday, May 3rd 2009
2008 International Drawing Annual
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center
2007 International Drawing Annual
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center
Bucheon
ArtBuisiness.com. August 17-18, 2006
2006 Graduate Catalogue
San Francisco Art Institute
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Instructor
Drawing 1 & 2, Life Drawing 1 & 2, Art Appreciation, Painting.
Southwestern Community College.
Spring 2004 - Fall 2015
Adjunct Instructor
Drawing.
Palomar Community College. San Marcos.
Fall 2011
Adjunct Instructor
Illustration, Life Drawing.
UCSD Extension. San Diego.
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Adjunct Instructor
Color Photography.
San Diego State University. San Diego.
Fall 2006
Adjunct Instructor
Sketching for Illustration and Communication.
San Diego CityCollege. San Diego.
Fall 2006.
Drawing Instructor.
Youth Arts Program.
San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco.
Summer 2005
Teaching Assistant in From Line to Life Drawing.
San Francisco Art Institute.
SanFrancisco.
2004
Teaching Assistant in Black and White Photography as Fine Art.
San Diego State ArtDepartment.
1998 - 2000
Teaching Assistant in Lithography 1 & 2.
San Diego State Art Department.
1998 –1999
Related Experience
West Coast Drawing. Member. 2006 – present.
THEM member. 2008 - present.
Funerals of Distinction. Artist collective. 2001-2005.
Exclusive Collections. Art consultant. 2001 – 2002.
