Julian Hatton

Julian Burroughs Hatton III is an American landscape abstract artist from New York City. He studied at New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture and has exhibited at galleries across the United States.

Early years

Hatton was born in Grand Haven, Michigan. His first application to the Studio School in New York was rejected since he lacked a portfolio. He studied with painter Fernando Zobel in Spain, returned with a portfolio, and was accepted.

Hatton worked at the Water Club restaurant in Manhattan for eight years.

Career Hatton exhibited at Manhattan galleries, including Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Kathryn Markel Gallery, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Frank Mario Gallery, Jon Leon Gallery, Eighth Floor Gallery, Lohin Geduld Gallery and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibit. During these years he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design as well as Swarthmore College and the Vermont Studio Center.

Reception New York Times critics have described his painting style as "vibrant, playful, semi-abstract landscapes" and "layers broad, richly colored shapes of trees, rivers and hills into funky, tautly frontal arcadian visions." Paintings had a "mix of Fauvism, Abstract Expressionism and outsider vision." Goodrich felt Hatton "finds expression through his forms."

Ebony wrote in 2005 in Art in America that Hatton "experiments with complex and sometimes contradictory spatial relationships" and that his landscapes "consist of Cubist-inspired fractured planes and shifting, multiple perspectives." Critic Joel Silverstein in Reviewny.com suggested Hatton's paintings "sing to each other in a high key citron-like color" and compared him to Paul Gauguin, Miró and Hofmann.

In The Brooklyn Rail critic Hovey Brock described Hatton's paintings as having a "healthy self-confidence not only in his artistic process, but also in the very enterprise of abstract painting." Critic Peter Malone of Hyperallergic magazine described Hatton's 2019 show entitled Bewilderness as "vigorously overlapping perspectives are pulled into a unified whole made of delightfully unstable parts" that demonstrate a "copious gift for invention, expressed through witty references to flowers, trees, rivers, pathways, and other landscape elements." 2007–Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters