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Chris Martin

Chris Martin

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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Chris Martin, Untitled, 2018-2019
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Chris Martin, Untitled, 2018-2019

    Chris Martin

    Untitled, 2018-2019
    Acrylic and glitter on canvas
    135 x 118 in. (342.9 x 299.7 cm)
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    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Chris Martin, Untitled, 1985
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  • Biography
    Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
    Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

    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, colourful 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 museum presentations over his nearly five-decade career, most recently in the Brooklyn Museum’s inaugural exhibition of The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition on the occasion of the museum’s 200th anniversary in 2024 and Drunk vs. Stoned 3, The Ranch, Montauk, New York in 2023. 

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  • Exhibitions
    • Summer Highlights

      Summer Highlights

      31 July - 6 September 2025 London
      Summer Highlights reflects on the restorative qualities of nature featuring paintings and sculptures.
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    • Chris Martin

      Chris Martin

      Speed of Light 16 January - 22 February 2025 New York
      Speed of Light features six atmospheric abstractions that revel in material discovery in the artist’s second solo show with the gallery and first at Timothy Taylor in New York.
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    • A Thing for the Mind

      A Thing for the Mind

      7 July - 19 August 2022 London
      Six 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.
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    • Chris Martin

      Chris Martin

      After the Rain 17 March - 29 April 2022 London
      Timothy 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.
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    • Painting the Essential

      New York 1980–Present 18 May - 20 June 2020 New York
      Timothy 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.
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    • Substance

      Substance

      18 July - 14 August 2015 London
      Continuing 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.
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  • Institutional

    • Jonathan Lasker, Chris Martin, and Eddie Martinez in Upside Down Zebra, The Watermill Center, NY
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      Jonathan Lasker, Chris Martin, and Eddie Martinez in Upside Down Zebra

      The Watermill Center, NY 28 June 2025 – 15 February 2026
      Upside Down Zebra explores the artistic value of children’s imagination, its inherent role in cognitive development, and its profound influence on contemporary art. The exhibition will feature works from the...
    • Sean Landers and Chris Martin in Nightshade: The World in the Evening, Oakland University Art Gallery, Michigan
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      Sean Landers and Chris Martin in Nightshade: The World in the Evening

      Oakland University Art Gallery, Michigan 16 January – 30 March 2025
      This exhibition explores the artistic interpretations of dusk, twilight, and night, emphasizing the shift in perception and the emergence of sublimity as daylight fades. Curated by Dick Goody, it features...
    • Chris Martin in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY
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      Chris Martin in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition

      Brooklyn Museum, NY 4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025
      Prepare to be dazzled by the inaugural edition of The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition , illuminating the unparalleled breadth of talent in our borough. Uniting more than 200 artists, this major...
    • Chris Martin in Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, KARST, Plymouth, England
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      Chris Martin in Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

      KARST, Plymouth, England 25 May – 20 July 2024
      Bringing together four distinct painters – Bernadette Kerrigan, Chris Martin, Daniel Pettitt, and EJ Hauser – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today explores the formal and informal ways each of...
  • Press
    • Chris Martin: Screen Time, Supernovas, and Ghost Pianos – Our Critics on What to See Now in New York

      John Vincler, Cultured Magazine, 19 February 2025
    • Chris Martin: An Arrival and Eternal Return of Painting

      Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, 5 February 2025
    • Chris Martin in his Brooklyn studio. Photo: Jason Schmidt

      Chris Martin Takes on the Cosmos

      Edward Waisnis, Whitehot Magazine, 25 January 2025
    • Chris Martin: Staring into the sun

      Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint, 23 January 2025
    • Chris Martin’s “Staring Into The Sun 748 Russell Hill Road,” 2024

      Chris Martin: The Painter Whose Canvases Have Hidden Messages

      Abstract Paintings Inspired by the Night Sky, on View in New York
      Jameson Montgomery, T Magazine, 16 January 2025
    • Chris Martin in The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week

      M. H. Miller, T Magazine, 21 May 2020
  • News

    • In Conversation: Chris Martin and Peter Halley, Timothy Taylor, New York
      News

      In Conversation: Chris Martin and Peter Halley

      Timothy Taylor, New York 12 February, 5:30pm
      Join Timothy Taylor for a conversation between artists Chris Martin and Peter Halley inside Martin's second solo show with the gallery and first at Timothy Taylor in New York, titled...
    • In Conversation | Josephine Meckseper and Chrissie Iles , The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
      News

      In Conversation | Josephine Meckseper and Chrissie Iles

      The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 29 April 2018
      An informal dialogue between the artist and Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator, Whitney Museum of American Art after the US debut screening of PELLEA[S] , a new film...
    • In Conversation | Katherine Bradford and Chris Martin, Spoonbill Books, Brooklyn, NY
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      In Conversation | Katherine Bradford and Chris Martin

      Spoonbill Books, Brooklyn, NY 10 March 2018
      Katherine Bradford and Chris Martin discuss the origins of their friendship, working in downtown NYC as young artists, and the long road to success.
    • In Conversation | Chris Martin and Wells Fray-Smith, Timothy Taylor, London
      News

      In Conversation | Chris Martin and Wells Fray-Smith

      Timothy Taylor, London 12 April 2022
      On 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 with the artist to discuss...
    • Chris Martin Joins Timothy Taylor
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      Chris Martin Joins Timothy Taylor

      19 March 2021
      Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce its representation of American artist Chris Martin. The gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Martin at Timothy Taylor, London in May...

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