Chris Martin (artist)
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Chris Martin is an artist based in Brooklyn
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Martin was born in Washington DC. He makes mainly abstract
painting
s with elements of collage
which reference New Age
and nature imagery. He is influenced by artists such as Paul Feeley
, Yayoi Kusama
, Alfred Jensen
and others who are also concerned with the formal qualities of painting.
1990
1991
1993
1994
2001
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2011
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
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Martin was born in Washington DC. He makes mainly abstract
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
s with elements of collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
which reference New Age
New Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
and nature imagery. He is influenced by artists such as Paul Feeley
Paul Feeley
Paul Feeley was an artist and director of the Art Department at Bennington College during the 1950s and early 1960s.-Biography:...
, Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
is a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation...
, Alfred Jensen
Alfred Jensen
Peter Alfred Jensen was a Danish politician and government minister. He was a member of the Danish Communist Party ....
and others who are also concerned with the formal qualities of painting.
Selected exhibitions
1989- Lannan Acquisitions, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California
1990
- Provocative Abstraction: New Painting New York, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica
1991
- Young American Painters, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen
- Visions/Revisions: Selections from the Contemporary Collection, The Denver Museum, Colorado
1993
- Seven Rooms/Seven Shows, PS1 Museum, Long Island City
1994
- Le Temps d’un Dessin, Gallerie de l’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lorient
2001
- Expanding Tradition, Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York
2004
- In Face of Silence, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen
- Naked, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland
2005
- Field Questions, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2006
- Getting It Right, OSP Gallery, Boston
2007
- Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich
- Heralds of Creative Anachronism, D'Amelio Terras, New York
- Block Party II: An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2008
- Unnameable Things, Artspace, New Haven
- Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2011
- Painting Big, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
External links
- Olsen, Craig, Interview with Chris Martin, Brooklyn Rail
- Saltz, Jerry, Odd Artist Out, ArtNet.com
- Chris Martin on ArtFacts.net
- Chris Martin on ArtNet.com
- Further information from the Saatchi Gallery