Knox Martin

Infobox Artist
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name = Knox Martin


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birthdate = birth date and age|1923|2|12|mf=y
location = Barranquilla, Colombia
nationality = American
field = Painter, Muralist, Sculptor
training = Art Students League of New York
movement = Abstract expressionism, New York School
works = Venus (mural) (1970), Woman with bicycle (1979)
awards = NEA Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, C.A.P.S. Grant, Longview Fellowships
Knox Martin is an American painter, sculptor and muralist. Born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950. He is one of the leading members of New York School - a group of artists and writers. He lives and works in New York City.

"Art is at its cutting edge out of a specific lineage - the creation of reality. The subject matter of what I do, is creation." - Knox Martin (1999). [http://www.knoxmartin.com/about.html Knox Martin - About The Artist ] ]

Work

His work is included in the collections of Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden [ [http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/search.asp?Artist=Knox+Martin&Title=&Date=&Nationality=&School= Collection Search Results ] ] , Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, New York University, National Arts Club, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York State Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Heckscher Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum [ [http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/artcollection/1959.12 BAM/PFA - Art Collection ] ] , Corcoran Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, Ithaca Museum, Lowe Art Museum, Wellesley College, Portland Art Museum, Springfield Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum [ [http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/images/i3/wam_detail.html?qmkey=2322 Weatherspoon Art Museum - UNC Greensboro ] ] , Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art [ [http://www.sama-art.org/info/press/2004/2004-10-28-b.html SAMA - Press Releases ] ] , Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Israel Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale.

One of his wall paintings in New York City is the ten story Venus (mural). [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/nyregion/thecity/11venu.html?ex=1328850000&en=8f4515c95db4a18e&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink After a 37-Year Run, a Roadside Venus to Be Veiled - New York Times ] ] It is located on the south side of Bayview Correctional Facility at 19th Street and the West Side Highway. [ [http://www.newyorkartworld.com/commentary/KnoxMartin-RoadsideVenus.html Knox Martin and his Roadside Venus ] ]

"Traditionally the goddess of love and fertility, Venus represents woman, erotic and supple, but it also conveys Knox Martin's love affair with New York. Venus is his love poem to the city where he has always lived, a place that is part of his being. The feminine, curvilinear shapes of the image are in direct contrast with the straight forms that intersect the composition. The overwhelming size of this enormous mural only intensifies the experience of female shapes, the linear aspects of the painted composition, and of the surrounding architecture. In an era when art was reaching out to the masses with pop culture, this huge mural was Knox Martin's way of touching a public that would never venture into an art gallery." [Marilyn Kushner, Knox Martin: Early Work, exh. cat. (New York: Janos Gat Gallery, 1997)]

In 2002 Knox Martin was named to the National Academy of Design. [ [http://www.nationalacademy.org National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts ] ]

tyle

The artist is best known for his repertory of signs and symbols that allude to nature and, in particular, to the female form. Flatly and freely painted in Pop colors, his works have often been executed on a grand scale, as in the outdoor wall painting, Woman with bicycle, at West Houston and MacDougal Streets in Manhattan. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DF1039F933A05755C0A967948260 Art; Knox Martin: Angry But More Human - New York Times ] ] He mostly creates painting, sculpture and wall paintings using media such as acrylic, collage, fresco, ink drawing (Pen and Ink), Mixed-Media/Multi-Media and oil. [ [http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/ArtistKeywords.aspx?artist=32742 Knox Martin - Artist, Art - Knox Martin ] ]

Teaching

He gives Master Classes at the Art Students League of New York. He taught at Yale Graduate School of Art, first as visiting critic in art, and then as Professor of Art. He also taught at New York University, the University of Minnesota, and the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. [ [http://www.askart.com/AskART/M/knox_martin/knox_martin.aspx Knox Martin - Artist, Art - Knox Martin ] ]

ee also

*New York School
*Abstract expressionism
*Venus (mural)
*Art Students League of New York

References

Books

* Marika Herskovic, [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/50666793&tab=holdings "New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,"] (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
* Irving Sandler, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69650842 From Avant-Garde to Pluralism: An On-The-Spot History,] (Hard Press Editions, 2006.)ISBN 1889097683

External links

* [http://www.knoxmartin.com Knox Martin Website]
* [http://www.janosgatgallery.com/JANOS_GAT_GALLERY/Knox_Martin_.html Janos Gat Gallery]
* [http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/bio_knox.html Art Students League of New York]
* [http://www.nationalacademy.org National Academy of Design]
* [http://64.124.30.150/html/artistresults.asp?artist=1456&testing=true The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.]
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/collections_list.cfm/fuseaction/Collections.ViewCollection/CollectionID/8049 Smithsonian Archives of American Art]
* [http://web.mac.com/esensedesigns/iWeb/The%20Artist's%20Studio/eSenseDesigns.com%20Podcast/814BD598-E20E-481F-826B-DE4286BF3BE1.html The Artist's Studio Podcast KNOX MARTIN]