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On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Beijing, Chris Martin discusses his new work which is inspired by the vast forests and sunsets of The Catskill Mountains, where the artist lives. Scarlet, emerald-green, and cadmium-yellow paint streak across the painted canvases, a return to the totem imagery and vivid primary-color palette that marked Martin’s early works of the 1980s. This return to early themes is characteristic of Martin’s practice, in which the artist returns to meditate on astrological, musical, or pop-cultural predecessors who have inspired him over the decades, continually reinterpreting these myths in the changing context of his own cultural experience.
