"Working Horse" Painting

Carlson Hatton lives and works in Los Angeles and received a BFA from the Cooper Union in NYC. He moved to the Netherlands for a postgraduate program in Amsterdam at de Ateliers and later continued on to a studio arts laureate program at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the city of Maastricht. He is a full-time professor of art at Santa Monica College.

Hatton has had solo exhibitions at Luis de Jesus, Good Mother Gallery, Patrick Painter, and Ruth Bachhofner Gallery. He has additionally had group exhibitions at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, The Torrance Art Museum, The Carnegie Art Museum, de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, Gallerie Nouvelles Images in The Hague, The Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht. Hatton’s artistic output also includes public art projects, including the design of 10 large murals for Los Angeles Metro along the K Line. Hatton's complexly layered compositions challenge a fixed point of view and consider how our visual experiences are informed by memory, intuition, and emotional response. His unique fusions of drawing, printmaking, and painting are often infused with color, optical patterns, and psychedelic qualities.