Drawing on inspirations ranging from Buddhism and American modernist painting to psychedelia and Amy Winehouse, Brooklyn - based painter Chris Martin (born 1954) «lets the paintings make themselves,» with often generously scaled canvases characterized by flat yet textured planes of bright, saturated color, frequently incorporating found materials and highly
personal paper ephemera.
The walls of his 7,500 square - foot studio are literally filled with file boxes that are filled with carefully noted and labeled scraps of
paper and other
ephemera — all of which forms a
personal encyclopedia describing the world he knows and providing a vast catalog of micro-tools to create his canvas universes.