"Martin has for nearly five decades invested in a painting practice that privileges process, directness, and an openness to experience. Bringing a vivid gestural freedom to a deep knowledge of the histories of abstraction and an omnivorous appetite for culture, he paints animated compositions that evoke cosmic phenomena, the landscape, and questions of scale. Elements of assemblage appear on Martin’s canvases—he is wide ranging in the vernacular materials he integrates into his paintings: glitter, images ripped from astrophysics books or pop culture magazines, bread, studio detritus, or aluminium foil. The resulting works are characterised by a playful tension between pictorial and actual space, as well as the prosaic and the sublime. "
- Timothy Taylor
On view January 16 - February 22 2025
For more information, click here.
The artist is represented by Anton Kern Gallery in New York, David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, and Timothy Taylor in London.
