Gallery exhibition
Jason Martin
For his new series of works, Jason Martin has created a stunning palette of red,
pink and gold. The colors are suspended in either gel or oil, which Martin applies
over panels of stainless steel, aluminum and copper. The artist designs his own
tools to manipulate the wet paint across the surface of his chosen support. Working
the pigment back and forth over the panel in single gestures, the painting is
complete when Martin is satisfied with a final, defining mark. As such, each
painting is a record of the movement of the artist’s body. The horizontal and
vertical lines that are defined by the tool create an illusionistic space generated by
the intersection of light on and through the medium to the underlying support.
Martin refers to the paintings as reflections because of the way in which the light
interacts with the varying grades of paint applications and shifts in the mark
against the support.
