Experience a private music forum with Artist, Peter Dayton. While a revered artist, Dayton is also known as a “therocknrollshrink.” You and your lucky guest will take an exclusive studio tour and engage in a mind-blowing music conversation, to be recorded and added to Dayton's personal archive.
You'll also become the lucky owner of the exquisite surfboard Peter created. You can display it as the fine art that it is, but don't let the flowers fool you - this board can hold its own in serious waves!
Peter Dayton emerged on the art scene in the early 1990s and is best known for his flower collages and witty surfboard paintings. He uses the language of Pop art to reference commodity culture, appropriating images and stripping them of their meaning: "I see them as color, shape, pattern," says Dayton. Commenting on their artifice and exploiting the way commercial images remove subjects from the realm of reality, Dayton's flowers act as a vessel for his exploration of style.
For Dayton, careers in art and music have always overlapped. During his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he became the lead singer in the band La Peste. Deeply influenced by the punk rock scene, Dayton soon left for France, where he established his own New Wave band, landed a record deal, performed with the Cars, and became a lip-synch singer on French TV.
Returning to the U.S. in 1989, Dayton returned to art-making, welcoming the more leisurely lifestyle of studio production. Reminiscing on his punk rock days, Dayton notes that "We did cutout lettering, ransom-note style, like the Sex Pistols," referencing how his artistic background continued to influence his music. Indeed, much like his music, his floral collages are bright, bold, and loud.
Special thanks to Hamptons magazine, Douglas Elliman, Global Surf Industries, and New York Sunshine.
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