Category archives: Artist Pages
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Originally from New Jersey and currently based in Colorado, Martin has displayed and sold his work at galleries and events throughout the New York tri-state area for the past fourteen years. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, he also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Solo Exhibits
2011 my pockets are full of you, Curator: Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art pop-up show, NY, NY
2010 feeling untethered I laid down my memories at Amos Eno Gallery, NY, NY
2006 ashy tongues whispering in smokey ears at Next Gallery, Denver, CO
Group Exhibitions
2012 Recess at Arcilesi & Homberg Fine Art (FAFA), Brooklyn, NY
2012 Color at BWAC, curator Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Works on Paper at Jeffrey Leder Gallery, NY, NY
2012 Remembering at Attleboro Arts Museum, Attelboro, MA
2012 Annual Competition at SAAC, curator Manuela Well-Off-Man, El Dorado, AK
2012 Wide Open 3 at BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
2012 WannA Piece?, Curator: Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art pop-up show, NY, NY
2011 Sorry 4 the Wait, Curator: Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art pop-up show, NY, NY
2011 Glimpses Beyond, Curator: Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art pop-up show, NY, NY
2011 110°: 2011 Summer Group Show at Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2011 Identity Shift Migration, Identity&Longing, Curator:Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art, NY,NY
2011 Wide Open 2 at BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
2011 In Vivid Color at Gallery M, Vienna, Austria
2011 Better by the Dozen at BAU, Beacon, NY
2011 Natural Selection 2.0 at DSU, Madison, South Dakota
2010 Confluences of Culture VI at Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY
2010 Crossroads/Seven Acts at Amos Eno Gallery, NY, NY
2009 Confluences of Culture IV at Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY
2009 Exhibit 0/1 at 25-Kadr Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 Open Show at S[...]
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My father worked for different Texas oil companies in the 1970's and 80’s and because of the nature of the work, every couple of years my family was uprooted, moved across county lines, and resettled. Creating stories for myself and role playing became my way of processing the changes I experienced. The work I’ve done so far depicts the emotional landscape of my childhood as I remember it—a blur of color and movement flashing by the static iconography of the past: those tiny company houses where the roughnecks lived, old-style telephone poles and pumpjacks. And enveloping that landscape, out of balance in scale, space, and perspective, are these figures that seem to dominate and subdue, not with violence, but with curiosity and playful interaction. Interrupting the flow of abstract shapes with simple flat black and white houses and telephone poles breaks the viewing pace, as if a light bulb pop across the setting of the implied narrative —pulling the viewer into a space undefined where they can figure out the story or pretend a new one.
