Alex Hutton (b. 1992) is a Brooklyn-based painter whose work centers on structures built for movement but held in suspension. Drawing from systems of engineering and leisure - rollercoasters, frameworks, and architectural supports - his paintings depict forms that are complete yet uninhabited, caught in a moment before activation. What emerges is not the structure itself, but the anticipation it generates.
At a distance, Hutton’s paintings read as precise and coherent. Up close, that clarity begins to break apart. Forms dissolve into shifting networks of marks and color, edges soften, and spatial logic becomes unstable. Built through processes of layering, wiping, and reworking paint, the surfaces hold competing states at once - construction and erosion, legibility and fragmentation. What appears fixed reveals itself as contingent, held together as much by perception as by material.
Hutton received his BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2014. He has presented solo exhibitions at SHRINE and Louis Reed, New York, and has participated in group exhibitions at Europa, Amity, 5-50 Gallery, Carlye Packer, and Magenta Plains, among others. His work has been featured in Maake Magazine.