AMERICA MARTIN
AMERICA MARTIN Born: Los Angeles, California. 1980.
““ I dream in color. I see the world as beautiful, so much to be learned and celebrated. Like a diary, the things I am drawn to find their way into my work. When painting, I listen to the bluesy jazz of Eric Dolphy - lyrical lines turn more abstract, female forms begin to expand, feet and bottoms grow wide, bold, and foundational.
My favorite things find their way into the art I make, through color harmony and composition. The cheerful sun in the sky. The flowers and vines that I grow. The books I read, places to be traveled, the way dogs bark and children laugh. The joy that I find in the people I know and the people I haven’t met yet. I am an artist; my name is America Martin.” America Martin is a Colombian-American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. This is her fifth solo show at TEW Galleries and one of seventy during the last nineteen years, adding to her ever-growing reputation as someone to be watched. Martin’s desire to capture the essence of humanity and nature is central to her engaging work. To underscore how important it is, she refers to herself as a painting anthropologist . Nevertheless, she deals with the same problems that have obsessed painters throughout time—arresting movement, exploring the expressive potential of human form, and arranging bodies in space in novel ways. In an age where contemporary art means experimental media, high theory, controversy, conceptualism, and politics, Martin sets herself apart through her interest in figuration and dialoguing with the past. In fact, her lyrical line, refined color, and sensuous forms may be considered nostalgic by some. After one look at her paintings, drawings, and sculpture, we are clear that she is anything but outdated.
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In fact, Martin’s work captures how we see today as it holds the present up for our delectation. She is the rare contemporary artist who can do so by speaking the language of historic antecedents—pop, modernist, cubist, Baroque, Italian primitive, and pre-Colombian artists. She does this by openly distorting their influences, parading them through her creations in unique ways. Amazingly, she does this without losing her originality or falling into academism and commercialism. Martin succeeds because artistic qualities—subtle if not invisible to most of us—are not overlooked by her. Martin has cultivated a well-developed craft—a necessary support for her magnetic, figurative artworks that collectors love and feel. For in the end, emotion functions as the only thing that truly establishes man’s bond with beauty. By feeling and expressing emotion, art lovers instinctively understand what she is doing, though they may not be able to put it into words. In fact, Martin’s art occupies that mysterious realm where things evade definition and cannot be described by mere words. Referencing myth, politics, décor, and religion, painting plays a fundamental role in the development of western aesthetics. Its influence is vast and found everywhere today. Painting is also a flexible language, one that encourages us to use imagination to interpret what we see. We, too, can speak it when we embrace unique points of view. In a world where we are often told what to think, great painting disrupts this. Artists cannot be distracted by convention, standards or criticism when it comes to their desire to create something unique. Martin navigates this challenge gracefully, making her vision known. As such, she lifts us above politics, concepts, and controversy to focus on the overlooked beauty of mankind and nature. We have now come full circle to celebrate America Martin’s role as a painting anthropologist —made all the more extraordinary by her approachability. - Timothy Tew
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America Martin Sharing a Lucky Wishbone , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 60" x 72" (unframed dimension) ACM 444 $24,000.00 SOLD
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America Martin When You Hear a Bird, Listen , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 48" x 48", (unframed dimension) ACM 445 SOLD
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America Martin Boy in Blue , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 72" x 60", (unframed dimension) ACM 446 $24,000 SOLD
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America Martin Woman in Gray and Blue , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 36" x 36", (unframed dimension) ACM 447 $13,000.00 SOLD
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America Martin Violet Leaves , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 60" x 40", (unframed dimension) ACM 448 $17,000.00
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America Martin Women Sit on the Red Bluff , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 60" x 40", (unframed dimension) ACM 449 $17,000.00 SOLD
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America Martin Small Boat , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 48" x 48", (unframed dimension) ACM 450 $16,500.00
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America Martin Under Leaves , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 48" x 48", (unframed dimension) ACM 451 $16,500.00
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America Martin New Blossoms , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 60" x 60", (unframed dimension) ACM 452 $21,000.00
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America Martin Woman with Flower in Hair , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 36" x 36", (unframed dimension) ACM 453 $13,000.00 SOLD
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America Martin Two Women Recline , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 48 x 48", (unframed dimension) ACM 454 $16,500.00
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America Martin Woman in Yellow , 2022 Oil & acrylic on canvas 48 x 48", (unframed dimension) ACM 455 $16,500.00 SOLD
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America Martin Woman and Fan Flowers , 2015 Oil & acrylic on canvas 57.5" x 64.5.5" ACM 441 SOLD
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America Martin Women Smile Behind the Azaleas , 2017 Oil & acrylic on canvas 62.5" x 75.5", 63.75" x 76.5" framed ACM 164 $23,500.00
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America Martin Corn Maidens , 2021 Oil and acrylic on canvas 52" x 84", 53.5"x 85" framed ACM 390 $23,300.00
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America Martin Women by the Water and Trees , 2021 Oil and acrylic on canvas 60" x 60", 62" x 62" framed ACM 436 $22,600.00
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America Martin Sculpture Study, Yellow & Blue , 2021 Oil and acrylic on canvas 72" x 36", 73" x 37" framed ACM 439 $18,700.00
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America Martin Spring in the Desert, 2021 Acrylic on linen 104" x 51", 106" x 53" framed ACM 431 $30,800.00
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America Martin Woman in Blue , 2021 Oil and acrylic on canvas 48"x 48", 50" x 49.5" framed ACM 387 SOLD
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America Martin Woman in Gray , 2021 Oil and acrylic on canvas 12" x 16", 17.75" x 18" framed
ACM 384 $7,800.00 SOLD
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America Martin Woman in Gold and Umber , 2021 Oil and acrylic on canvas 24" x 24", 25.5" x 25 3/8" framed
ACM 382 $9,500.00
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AMERICA MARTIN WORKS ON PAPER, 2022
America Martin Study of Women with Luck Wish Bone , 2022 Oil and acrylic on canvas 26" x 40" unframed
ACM 457 $5,400.00 SOLD
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America Martin On the Wall She Watches the Moon through Jasmine Vines , 2022 Acrylic on paper 71" x 34" unframed ACM 458 SOLD
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America Martin Woman in Blue & Beige , 2022
Ink and chalk on paper 21.75" x 24" unframed ACM 456 SOLD
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America Martin Men Around the Campfire, 2021 Ink and chalk on paper 25" x 30", 30.5" x 35.25" framed
ACM 402 $4,900.00 .
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America Martin Woman Listens to Songbird, 2021 Ink on paper 11.25" x 13.5", 18" x 16" framed
ACM 427 $2,800.00 SOLD
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America Martin Long Petal Daisies, 2020 Ink on cotton paper 17" x 13", 22" x 18" framed
ACM 401 $3,000.00 SOLD
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America Martin Joyful Pot of Flowers, 2019 Ink on paper 48" x 36", 50" x 38" framed
ACM 460 $7,000.00 SOLD
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America Martin Smile, 2021 Chalk on paper 11" x 15", 15" x 12.75" framed
ACM 406 $2,700.00
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America Martin Woman in Cream and Brown II Ink on paper 28.5" x 19.5", 31" x 21.5" framed
ACM 459 $4,400.00
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ADDITIONAL WORKS ON PAPER WILL BE FEATURED ON OUR WEBSITE.
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AMERICA MARTIN
American: Born 1980, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (2010 – current)
2022 2021
TEW Galleries, A merica Martin , SOLO, Atlanta, GA
JoAnne Artman Gallery, Seeing America , New York, NY JoAnne Artman Gallery, I See Heroes Everywhere , Laguna Beach, CA
2020
Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, ME
2019
Solo Exhibition & Talk, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX Solo Exhibition & Talk, 203 Fine Art Gallery, Taos, NM Elizabeth Gordon Gallery in Wyoming, Jackson Hole, WY TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Artman Gallery, New York, NY J. Willott Gallery, Palm Springs, CA Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA TEW Galleries Peachtree Hills Ave Atlanta GA JoAnne Artman Gallery, New York, New York Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, ME Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX CONTEXT New York with the JoAnne Artman Gallery
2018
2017 2016
2015
JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, ME 203 Gallery, Taos, NM
JoAnne Artman Gallery, New York, New York Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Affordable Art Fair NY with the JoAnne Artman Gallery
2014
TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ 2013 203 Gallery, Taos, NM Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland Maine Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, ME Mark Gallery, Englewood, New Jersey Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA The Carver Hill Gallery, Rockport, ME Elizabeth Gordon Gallery Santa Barbara, CA
2012
2011
2010
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