- Chris Martin (artist)
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Chris Martin (born 1954) is an artist based in Brooklyn.
Martin was born in Washington DC. He makes mainly abstract paintings with elements of collage which reference New Age and nature imagery.[1] 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.[2]
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 [3]
References
- ^ Smith, Roberta, NYTimes.com
- ^ Artlog.com
- ^ "Chris Martin: Painting Big". Corcoran Gallery of Art. http://www.corcoran.org/now/martin/index.php. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
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
Categories:- American artists
- 1954 births
- Living people
- People from Washington, D.C.
- People from Brooklyn
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