Aeneas Middleton

Aeneas "Hardley Davidson" Middleton (b.1980, United States) is a Multi-Platinum producer/Painter. Middleton is looking to live up to his birth name, Aeneas, and create a new culture of art that will last forever. Breaking barriers in the music industry with striking new sound techniques with visual compositions. Middleton has worked with Nelly, Akon, Chamillionaire, Chingy, Universal Records, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, MTV. AND1, Eminem's Shady Records, Atlantic Records, SONY PlayStation.

 

Middleton, a current Massachusetts-based artist, continues to push his creativity. Aeneas’ artworks utilize both traditional and digital mediums with a mixture of works on canvas. Using layered abstractions, he focuses on the dynamics of movement to create a sense of energy and expressionism that converges away from panels, stretched canvas, and glass planes on which he paints. By late 2021, Middleton, entered the blockchain art world, turning his physical art mediums into digital art, selling paintings like NFT’s, selling over $200k in sales. In 2023, Middleton reached a milestone with artwork entitled ‘Ξvergreen’ by Sotheby’s.

 

Middleton collaborated with major artist(s) around the world, including using digital/physical combinations with digital tables embedded into wood panels. Aeneas' vision has always been to push the envelope with creativity.

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Artist Statement

 

I see my art through dreams that become reality. My father named me after the Trojan Hero Aeneas. I express myself as if I were him, living thousands of years later using ancient techniques of colors layered over themselves. Sometimes, I used synesthesia to create my art. An art process that allows me to be free as an eagle using sound. I'm never scared to be different. I want to communicate these dreams or visions, to show human emotion that hasn’t been touched yet. Using colors that immediately strike people when they seem them. In the end, it’s about being Aeneas. Staying true to myself. For my mother has taught me well. All of my paintings start with one brush stroke and become a creative vision that illuminates over time."