Typographic Abstractions: Cecil Touchon at Nuart Gallery, Los Angeles
Opening Reception: Saturday June 28th, 2025: 4-6pm
OK, Time for a Title and Artist Statement for the show at Nuart Gallery - Los Angeles.
About 10 days ago I found out I have a one person show coming up at my Santa Fe gallery’s new Los Angeles space at Bergamot Station. I am guessing another artist that was scheduled could not come up with the show and the dealer Juan Kelly called me to see if I could do it.
It turned out I had a number of works available and he was hoping for some brand new pieces so Rosalia and I were able to come up with 5 new canvases to add to the ones here on the studio racks. I had sent out a few other works from 2025 earlier this year to Nuart and there are some of my paintings out there in LA already and there are paintings at the gallery in Santa Fe so plenty to make a show. Now for the title and statement…
If you are in the area come to the opening on Saturday June 28th, 2025.
Nüart Gallery | Santa Monica
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue #B4
Santa Monica, CA 90404
NuartGallery.com
424. 900. 3888
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Opening Reception: Saturday June 28th, 2025: 4-6pm
Typographic Abstractions
New Works by Cecil Touchon
Nuart Gallery, Los Angeles
In Typographic Abstractions, I continue my decades-long exploration of the poetic potential embedded in the fragments of our visual language. As a collage artist, all of my painting compositions start from smaller collage studies on paper. Drawing from found typography, discarded ephemera, and the architectural forms of letters themselves, these new works transform the rigid structures of communication into visual fields of rhythm, gesture, and resonance.
This body of work does not seek to spell, declare, or explain. Instead, it listens—closely—to the silent music of shape and space. Letters, once charged with utilitarian purpose, are cut, layered, and recontextualized until they shed their semantic burden and begin to breathe as pure asemic poetic form. What remains is a kind of visual archaeology—part collage, part painting, part visual poetry—evoking the ghost of language without ever needing to be read.
Los Angeles, with its ever-shifting landscape of signage, design, and cultural remix, feels like the right setting for this work. These pieces are not nostalgic—they are forensic. They ask: What happens when language is no longer legible but still contains meaningful beauty? What do we inherit from the shapes we’ve stopped noticing?
In this exhibition, I offer typographic abstraction as both meditation and inquiry—a practice of seeing beyond the surface of what we think we know, toward the essential patterns beneath.
—Cecil Touchon
Congratulations Cecil. This show was meant to be yours. Your statement enhanced my experience of your art. Seeing the work in person must be wonderful.
Wish I could be there to see your show in person, Cecil. Wishing you all the best on this exhibition!