Chris Martin (born 1954) is an American abstract painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and the Catskills region of New York State.
Early life and education
Chris Martin was born in
Washington, DC
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, in 1954. His grandmother was a landscape painter. He grew up in Washington, and works in
Brooklyn, New York
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. He studied painting at
Yale University
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but did not complete the course; in the 1990s he attended the
School of Visual Arts
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History
This school was started by Silas ...
and left with a degree in
art therapy
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. He worked as an art therapist for some fifteen years.
Work
He makes colorful,
abstract painting
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s, often with elements of
collage
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and text.
His work is
casualist, and employs various media. He considers it to be influenced by the
Catskill Mountains
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined a ...
, which he often visited when young.
An early member of the
Williamsburg
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Places
*Colonial Williamsburg, a living-history museum and private foundation in Virginia
*Williamsburg, Brooklyn, neighborhood in New York City
*Williamsburg, former name of Kernville (former town), California
*Williams ...
art scene, he still maintains the same studio he has had since the mid-1980s, in what used to be a florist's freezer.
References
Further reading
* Dan Nadel, Glenn O'Brien, Nancy Princenthal, Trinie Dalton, Chris Martin (2018). ''Chris Martin Paintings'' Milan: Skira.
* Elodie Evers, Lars Bang Larsen, Alexander Koch, Bob Nickas, Gregor Jansen (2012). ''Chris Martin: Staring into the Sun'' (exhibition catalogue). Köln: Walther König.
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Painters from Washington, D.C.
1954 births
20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
21st-century American male artists
American abstract painters
American contemporary painters
Casualist artists
Living people
20th-century American male artists