Chris Martin (artist)

Chris Martin (born 1954) is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Martin was born in Washington DC. He makes abstract paintings with elements of collage which reference New Age and nature imagery. Martin is influenced by artists such as Paul Feeley, Yayoi Kusama, Alfred Jensen and others who are also concerned with the formal qualities of painting.

Contents

• Chris martin studio visit part i
• Selected exhibitions
• References

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 z

Staring at the Sun, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2012

Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York