Alan Charlton

Alan Charlton is a contemporary British artist best known for his Minimalist paintings and installations. Uniformly painted gray, his conceptual works are frequently composed of simple geometic forms, such as a single triangle or rectangle broken into modular elements. “I want my paintings to be: abstract, direct, urban, basic, modest, pure, simple, silent, honest, absolute,” Charlton has said of his practice. Born in 1948 in Sheffield, England, the artist studied at the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1966–1969, and during his tenure there decided to only produce gray paintings, citing its emotional qualities and mutability.

Charlton's work has been gaining recognition since the 1970s, and has been exhibited at institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Castello di Rivoli in Torino, and the Tate in London. He currently lives and works in London, England.