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Paintings

Chris Martin, Grandiosity and Depression, 1988-1990, oil on canvas, 36 x 38 cm
Chris Martin, Sunrise Asi Ghat Varanasi, 2003-2004, oil, pencil, collage on canvas, 41 x 51 cm
Chris Martin, Rev. Al in Mourning, 2006-2007, oil, collage on canvas, 51 x 40.6 cm
Chris Martin, Motown Music and the Astral Plane, 2007-2008, oil, mixed media, collage on canvas, 122 x 97 cm
Chris Martin, Homage Yayoi Kusama, Kurtis Blow..., 2008, oil, mixed media on canvas, 224 x 196 cm
Chris Martin, Queen of the Night, 2008, papier-mâché, collage, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 163 cm
Chris Martin, James Brown Upside Down and Prince Rising, 2007-2009, oil, collage on canvas, 150 x 163 cm
Chris Martin, Homage Isaac Hayes...Hot Buttered Soul, 2008-2010, oil, collage on canvas, 150 x 163 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2004-2008, oil, collage on tablecloth, 110 x 76 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2000-2002, oil, pencil on canvas, 31 x 31 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2007, oil, collage on canvas, 122 x 97 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2007, oil on canvas, 41 x 31 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2003-2007, oil, collage on canvas, 71 x 61 cm
Chris Martin, James Brown Live in Tokyo, 2006-2007, oil, collage on canvas, 123 x 97 cm
Chris Martin, Mother Popcorn: Red Yellow & Blue #3, 2007, oil, collage on canvas, 139 x 113 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 1986-1995, oil on canvas, 65 x 52 cm
Chris Martin, Dance, 2006-2008, oil, mixed media on canvas, 338 x 610 cm (detail)
Chris Martin, Here, 1995-1996, acrylic on canvas, 328 x 363 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 1984-1999, oil, spray paint on masonite, 46 x 56 cm
Chris Martin, 0-1234567, 1986-1996, oil, collage on canvas, 46 x 41 cm
Chris Martin, Tree, 1986-2009, oil on canvas, 97 x 61 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 1988, oil on aluminium foil, 132 x 96 cm
Chris Martin, Lake, 1988-1990, oil on aluminium foil, 328 x 726 cm
Chris Martin, 34472289, 1989, oil, acrylic, leaves on painter's dropcloth, 328 x 277 cm
Chris Martin, The Sun Needs the Moon, 1990, acrylic, mixed media on canvas, 328 x 244 cm
Chris Martin, Fearless, 1993-1995, acrylic, latex on canvas, 328 x 363 cm
Chris Martin, Studio, 1993-1996, acrylic on canvas, 328 x 363 cm
Chris Martin, Couple, 1998-2000, oil, iodine on canvas, 300 x 363 cm
Chris Martin, Full Moon, 2000, oil on canvas, 300 x 363 cm
Chris Martin, Homage James Brown Godfather of Soul..., 2001-2007, oil, collage on canvas, 38 x 46 cm
Chris Martin, High Noon Manikarika Ghat Varanasi... (In Memory of Frank Moore), 2002-2003, oil on canvas, 360 x 300 cm
Chris Martin, 1234567 odd-even-odd..., 2002-2004, oil on canvas, 41 x 51 cm
Chris Martin, Midnight, 2002-2004, oil, spray paint on plastic, 91 x 61 cm
Chris Martin, Yellow Form (Giant Mushroom Cloud At The End Of The World), 2002-2008, oil, gel medium, collaged apricots on canvas, 28 x 36 cm
Chris Martin, Mushrooms, 2004-2008, oil, collage, spray paint on canvas, 84 x 66 cm
Chris Martin, Psilocybin, 2004, oil on canvas, 36 x 28 cm
Chris Martin, 3AM..., 2004-2008, oil on canvas, 343 x 300 cm
Chris Martin, For Amy Winehouse, 2004-2008, mixed media on canvas, 122 x 97 cm
Chris Martin, Ghosts, 2005, oil on canvas, 343 x 302 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2005, oil, gel medium on cardboard, 69 x 56 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2005-2008, oil, collage on canvas, 343 x 300 cm
Chris Martin, Good Evening Alfred Jensen Good Evening!, 2005-2007, oil, collage on canvas, 36 x 28 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2006-2008
Chris Martin, Homage Tamara Gonzales, 2006-2007
Chris Martin, Crystal, 2007, oil, spray paint on canvas, 79 x 66 cm
Chris Martin, Good Evening Alfred Jensen Good Evening!, 2007, oil, collage on canvas, 41 x 31 cm
Chris Martin, Good Morning Alfred Jensen Good Morning!, 2007, oil, collage on canvas, 36 x 28 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled (Magenta and Yellow), 2007, spray paint on canvas, 89 x 74 cm
Chris Martin, Monkeys, 2008, oil, collage on canvas, 137 x 125 cm
Chris Martin, Seven Pointed Star for Isaac Hayes, 2008, oil, collage on canvas, 114 x 94 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2008, oil, burlap on canvas, 95 x 74 cm
Chris Martin, FORMJ, 2008-2009, oil, colllage on canvas, 109 x 86 cm
Chris Martin, Immortality, 2008-2009, oil, collage, gel medium, spray paint on canvas, 137 x 107 x 10 cm
Chris Martin, Ain't It Funky, 2003-2010, mixed media on canvas, 343 x 290 cm
Chris Martin, Calendar Girl for Alfred Jensen, 2007, mixed media on cardboard mounted on canvas, 36 x 34 cm
Chris Martin, Green Painting, 2005-2009, oil, spray paint, collage on cloth, 74 x 63.5 cm
Chris Martin, Ain't It Funky, 2003-2010, mixed media on canvas, 343 x 290 cm (detail)
Chris Martin, Untitled, 1989, oil on canvas and aluminium foil, 328 x 241 cm
Chris Martin, I Am Not..., 1988-1992, oil, collage, glitter on canvas, 64 x 56 cm
Chris Martin, The Valley, 2005, acrylic gel, oil, collage on cardboard, 64 x 46 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled (For Jim Harrison), 1986-1996, oil, collage on canvas, 56 x 41 cm
Chris Martin, 21 Bones, 1988-1995, oil, pen on canvas, 56 x 46 cm
Chris Martin, 1234567..., 1987-1995, oil, roof cement on canvas, 46 x 38 cm
Chris Martin, 1-21..., 1986-1995, oil on canvas, 41 x 36 cm
Chris Martin, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, 1988-1997, oil, collage, latex on canvas, 36 x 31 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2003-2005, acrylic gel, oil, collage on canvas, 28 x 36 cm
Chris Martin, King and Queen Couple, 1997, acrylic on canvas, 328 x 406 cm
Chris Martin, Here, 2002, oil on canvas, 363 x 300 cm
Chris Martin, 7 Pointed Star for St. John of the Cross, 1993, oil, collage on canvas, 326.5 x 276.5 cm
Chris Martin, Ganges Sunrise, 2002, oil on canvas, 363 x 230 cm
Chris Martin, Big Glitter Painting, 2009-2010, mixed media on canvas, 342 x 275 cm
Chris Martin, Water (7x7), 1999-2000, acrylic on canvas, 300 x 363 cm
Chris Martin, The View from Kingslodge, 1993-1994, oil, mixed media on canvas, 328 x 363 cm
Chris Martin, The View from Kingslodge, 1993-1994, oil, mixed media on canvas, 328 x 363 cm (detail)
Chris Martin, John Bill Haynes´ House, 1989, oil, acrylic, mixed media on canvas, 267 x 328 cm
Chris Martin, Farewell James Brown #2, 2007-2009, oil, collage on canvas, 150 x 163 cm
Chris Martin, The Secret Melancholy of Karlheinz Stockhausen, 2008-2011, oil, spray paint, collage on canvas, 51 x 36 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 1989, oil on aluminium foil, 43 x 34 cm
Chris Martin, Seven Pointed Star, 2008-2011, oil, acrylic on canvas, 137 x 114 cm
Chris Martin, 7+7, 2009, oil on canvas, 41 x 51 cm
Chris Martin, Griffin, 1980, oil on canvas, 41 x 51 cm
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Chris Martin, Samuel Palmer, 2007, oil, spray paint, gel medium, collage on canvas, 137 x 114 cm
Chris Martin, Seven Pointed Star for Isaac Hayes, 2008, oil, collage on canvas, 114 x 94 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2007, oil, gel medium, collage on canvas, 163 x 150 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2007, oil, spray paint on canvas, 114 x 137 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 1987-2007, oil on canvas, 79 x 64 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2008, mixed media on canvas, 114 x 94 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2008, oil, spray paint on burlap and canvas, 109 x 87 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 1999-2005, acrylic, oil, collage on canvas, 102 x 76 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled (Glitter Painting), 2009, mixed media on canvas, 125 x 150 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled, 2008-2009, mixed media on canvas, 36 x 28 cm
Chris Martin, Untitled (Glitter Painting), 2009, oil, spray paint, gel medium, glitter on canvas, 132 x 107 cm
Chris Martin, The View from Kingslodge #3 (Mescalin), 1992-1994, acrylic, latex, glitter, spices on canvas, 328 x 363 cm
Chris Martin, Magic Carpet, 2009, oil, collage on carpet on canvas, 224 x 196 cm
Chris Martin, For Amy Winehouse, 2006, oil, collage on canvas, 114 x 137 cm (destroyed)

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Chris Martin was born in 1954 in Washington D.C., USA. From 1972 till 1975 he studies Fine Arts at Yale University, New Haven. In the early eighties Martin moves to Brooklyn, New York, where he still lives and works today. His monographic exhibition at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2011) and a monumental presentation at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen’s Submarine Wharf in Rotterdam (2013) put him on the European map. Martin's oeuvre has built new bridges across the rift between American and European modernist and postmodernist painting, and his art has been wide open to other cultural influences. Taking up the traditions of German Romanticism and Abstract Expressionism, Martin has drawn inspiration from indigenous, far Eastern, and African-American cultures, especially from soul and funk. He has abandoned notions of imperative purity in Color Field painting and reconciled their aesthetic with the popular culture, street art, and eclecticism of our time. Chris Martin has written significant contributions for the Brooklyn Rail Magazine (www.brooklynrail.org), where he publishes articles on abstract painting as well as interviews with artists like Brice Marden, Thomas Nozkowski, Helmut Federle and James Siena.



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