Jason Martin
(British, born 1970)
Biography
Jason Martin is a British artist whose thickly textured paintings achieve uniquely sculptural surfaces. Known for his rich, monochromatic works, Martin layers oil paint or acrylic gel atop a metal or Plexiglas substrate, and then drags a comb-like tool through the substance to create voluminous striations. The process-based formalism of his practice shows the influence of artists such as David Budd and Robert Ryman. “The most interesting abstraction has a source of figuration,” he reflected. “My approach is that there is a warmth of figuration that I try to affect into the movements—gestures—that I make [on the canvas].” Born in 1970 in Jersey, United Kingdom, Martin studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Goldsmiths College in the early 1990s, and gained the attention of a wider audience after his inclusion in the 1997 exhibition “Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection” held at the Royal Academy of Art in London. He currently lives and works between London, United Kingdom and Lisbon, Portugal. Martin’s works are held in the collections of the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, the Denver Art Museum, the Sammlung Essl in Vienna, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., among others.
Jason Martin Artworks
Jason Martin
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.jpg "Madonna (in 2 parts), 1996")
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