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SKIRA Editore. Chris Martin
15April
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SKIRA Editore. Chris Martin

The first significant monograph devoted to the work of abstract artist Chris Martin, this book includes incisive essays alongside more than 200 color illustrations.

Chris Martin and his art came of age in the 1980s in New York, a time and place which saw the explosion of the East Village art scene and artists like Keith Haring. Influenced by artists such as Paul Feeley, Yayoi Kusama, Alfred Jensen and others concerned with the formal qualities of painting, Martin creates bold, abstract works known for their flat-yet-textured planes of saturated color made by the collaging of found items directly onto the canvas.

Chris Martin traces the interwoven histories of the artist and the New York art scene from the 1970s through the present and explores the unknowable psychological tendencies of art represented in his canvases.