With lustrous color and dynamic style, artist Cliff Speaks creates paintings that exude excitement, harmony and complexity. Inspired by artistic movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Cubism and Impressionism.

Speaks’ work eloquently displays an influence from these schools of art, while infusing fresh life into their ideas with his own modern take on composition. Speaks’ work showcases instruments and musicians and explores a merging of musicality and painting. The paintings possess their own kind of rhythm in the color choices and use of sinuous line. Cliff engages in a conversation of sorts between music and art. His paintings are a continual exploration; as he states, “to me a work of art is a temporary conclusion to an ongoing idea.”

A resident of Brandon, Mississippi, Cliff has great affection for southern culture and imagery. He lives in Brandon with his wife Tanya, 2 kids Sophie and Evan and Angel the Black Lab. He comes to painting from a background in graphic design and has been painting professionally for nine years. His art has appeared in galleries and exhibits in New York, Los Angeles, Mississippi and most recently in New Orleans

He has done commissions for Three Doors Down and Pearl River Casino, as well as a number of private commissions. 

http://www.speaksart.com

Gallery Representation
Southern Breeze Galley, Ridgeland, MS
Made Gallery, New Orleans
Agora Gallery, New York
Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles

Shows
2011 Solo Show, Southern Breeze Gallery, Ridgeland, MS
2010 The South Warehouse, Jackson,MS
2008 The Made Gallery, New Orleans, LA Opening show

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2008 Southern Breeze Gallery, Ridgeland, MS One Man Show
2007 Agora Gallery, New York, NY Group Show "The Lexus of Abstratcion"
2007 Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Group Show
2006 Jackson Street Gallery, Jackson, MS Two Man Show
2005 Double Decker Festival, Oxford, MS Art Festival
2005 Jackson Street Gallery, Jackson, MS One Man Show
2005 The South Gallery, Jackson, MS 4 Man Show

Commissions
Pearl River Resort and Casino - 10 Paintings
Pearl River Resort and Casino Casino-Installation
3 Commission Doors Down 3 Paintings for Brad Arnold
Auditorium Restaurant in Fondren of Jackson - 15 Paintings