Chris Martin
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Chris MartinLight Waves Are Constantly in Motion and Can be Absorbed2023Acrylic, glitter, and sequins collage on canvas
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Chris MartinRising2023Glitter, sequins, and acrylic oil on canvas23 x 28 in. (58.4 x 71.1 cm)
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Chris MartinUntitled2023Acrylic and sequins on canvas32 x 29 in. (81.3 x 73.7 cm)
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Chris MartinUntitled 2020-2021Acrylic on canvas135 x 118 in. (342.9 x 299.7 cm)
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Chris MartinAfter the Rain2020Oil, acrylic, alkyd, collage, and glitter on canvas78 in x 60 in. (198 cm x 152.5 cm)
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Chris MartinTrinidad Afternoon2019Oil, acrylic, collage, and glitter on canvas77 x 88 in. (195.6 x 223.5 cm)
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Chris MartinUntitled2018-2019Acrylic and glitter on canvas135 x 118 in. (342.9 x 299.7 cm)
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Chris MartinUntitled1986Acrylic and pencil on paper12 x 8 3⁄4 in. (30.5 x 22.2 cm)
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Chris MartinUntitled1985Acrylic, pencil, and ink on paper12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Art can be this very fresh activity which isn't about making a precious object. It's about communicating something for as long as it lasts.
Chris Martin (b. 1954, Washington D.C.) is an American artist who lives and works between Brooklyn and upstate New York. Martin is known for his vibrant, colorful paintings, which alternate between graphic figuration and ambient painterly abstraction. His paintings have been critically acclaimed for their immediacy and aesthetic diversity, fusing autobiographical elements with a wide-ranging visual lexicon equally grounded in playful pop-cultural referents and twentieth-century art history. The artist’s focus on deep, layered colour fields, abstract forms, and gestural brushstrokes can be seen as emerging out of the legacy of Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field painting, yet his radical use of non-traditional materials—such as craft glitter, collaged commercial photographs, and domestic objects like LPs, tabloid newspapers, and slices of bread—is distinctly individualistic, and lends his pieces both a visceral texture and physical depth. Thematically, his paintings reflect the cycles of his wide range of personal interests, from astrology and rock music to Eastern mystical traditions, postwar European painting, and philosophical texts. Many of Martin’s recent works are inspired by his observations of the pastoral landscape outside his Catskills studio. Martin has been the subject of numerous solo museum presentations over his more than four-decade career, most recently at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
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A Thing for the Mind
7 July - 19 August 2022 LondonSix decades after Philip Guston (1913 – 1980) first shocked the art world, the sweeping ambition of his vision continues to reshape the realm of the possible for artists who have followed in his wake. His paintings blend a precise vocabulary of concerns then without precedent in American painting: mundane domestic objects, body parts and cityscapes within abstract fields of paint. As humorous and personal as they are politically incisive, his paintings draw a vivid picture of Guston’s own muddled dreamscape of fears and anxieties as well as of society’s worst impulses.View More -
Chris Martin
After the Rain 17 March - 29 April 2022 LondonTimothy Taylor is delighted to present a selection of new paintings by Chris Martin (b. 1954, Washington, D.C.), the artist’s first solo exhibition in London.View More -
Painting the Essential
New York 1980–Present 18 May - 20 June 2020 New YorkTimothy Taylor is delighted to announce Painting the Essential: New York, 1980–Present, the second exhibition in the gallery’s expanded program of online viewing rooms organized by special guest curators.View More -
Substance
18 July - 14 August 2015 LondonContinuing its Philip Guston season, Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the group exhibition Substance, which takes as its point of departure the “meat and potatoes” of Guston’s layered, visceral paintings – coined by Mark Leckey in his Cinema in the Round (2008) – and then goes on to explore the idea of substance in art from different points of view.View More
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Chris Martin in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition
Brooklyn Museum, NY 4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025Prepare to be dazzled by the inaugural edition of The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, illuminating the unparalleled breadth of talent in our borough. Uniting more than...Read More -
Chris Martin in Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
KARST, Plymouth, England 25 May – 20 July 2024Bringing together four distinct painters – Bernadette Kerrigan, Chris Martin, Daniel Pettitt, and EJ Hauser – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today explores the formal...Read More -
In Conversation | Chris Martin and Wells Fray-Smith
Timothy Taylor, London 12 April 2022On the occasion of Chris Martin's current exhibtion After the Rain at Timothy Taylor in London, Curator Wells Fray-Smith of The Whitechapel Gallery sits down...Read More -
Chris Martin Joins Timothy Taylor
19 March 2021Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce its representation of American artist Chris Martin. The gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Martin at...Read More -
In Conversation | Katherine Bradford and Chris Martin
Spoonbill Books, Brooklyn, NY 10 March 2018Katherine Bradford and Chris Martin discuss the origins of their friendship, working in downtown NYC as young artists, and the long road to success.Read More