Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Chris Martin

Biography

Born 1954, Washington D.C.
Lives and works in New York, NY

1992 BFA, Certificate of Art Therapy, School of Visual Arts
1972-1975 Yale University, New Haven, CT

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2008
Mitchell-Innes & Nash

2007
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

2005
Uta Scharf Gallery, New York, NY
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2001
Malca Fine Arts, New York, NY
Galapagos Art and Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2000
Galapagos Art and Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY

1998
Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY

1997
Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1996
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA

1995
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

1992
John Good Gallery, New York, NY

1991
Jiminez & Algus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1990
John Good Gallery, New York, NY

1988
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Shapeshifters
Artspace, New Haven, CT, Unnameable Things
University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC, Shape Shifters

2007
D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY, "Heralds of Creative Anachronism"
de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, "Painting as Fact - Fact as Fiction"
Max Protetch, New York, "Unfathom"

2006
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY, "Abstract"
American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, "Invitational Exhibit"
OSP Gallery, Boston, MA, "Getting It Right"
Holiday Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Leslie Roberts, Chris Martin, Gelah Penn"
Thorpe Gallery, NY, "Everywhichway"
Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY, "Inside Out"
Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Mirror of Our Obsessions and Fears"
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "War Is Over"

2005
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, "The Painted World"
Feature Gallery, NY, "Meditative"
Betty Cunningham Gallery, NY, "Paint It Black"
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Work On Paper"
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, "Field Questions"
Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY, "30th Anniversary Exhibition"

2004
Tastes Like Chicken Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, "Art of the Neighborhood"
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany, "In Face of Silence"
J.Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL, "Contemporary New York"
June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME, "Naked"
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, "Luck of the Drawn"
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Peace"
Studio 18 Gallery, New York, NY, "Counterpoise"
N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, "The Color Imperative"

2003
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, "The Invisible Thread"
The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Clear Intentions"
Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn NY, "The Incredible Lightness of Being"

2002
Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY, "Integrated Sensibilities"
Gallery 817, Philadelphia, PA, "All Drawing"
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Merry"

2001
Brooklyn Rail Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Made in Brooklyn"
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, "Waiting List"
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, "Luck of the Drawn"
Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York NY, "Expanding Tradition"

2000
Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY, "Significant Pursuits: Paint and Geometry"
New York Studio School, New York, NY, "Painting Abstraction"
Malca Fine Art, New York, NY, "Fundamental Occurances"
Flipside Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Flashlight"
The State of the Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "An Homage to Albert Pinkham Ryder"

1999
Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Rage for Art"

1998
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, NC, "Art on Paper"
Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME, "The Word on Art"
N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, "Paintings"

1997
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY, "Alive and Well - New Painting"
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, "Current Undercurrents - Working in Brooklyn"
Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, CN, "Christ in Recent New York Art"
Mott Works Gallery, New York, NY, "Blanc and White"

1994
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, "Review/Preview"
Gallerie de l'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lorient, France, "Le Temps d'un Dessin"

1993
Arena Gallery, New York, NY, "Contemporary Drawing Part 2"
PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, "Four Walls at PS1- Seven Rooms/Seven Shows"

1992
Max Protech Gallery, New York, "A New American Flag"

1991
The Denver Museum, CO, "Visions/Revisions: Selections from the Contemporary Collection"
Dooley La Cappellaine Gallery, New York, "Ecstasy"
John Good Gallery, New York, "Works on Paper"
Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO, "Young American Painters"

1990
Aldrich Museum, CO, "Words as Symbols"
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CO, "Aids Timeline1990"
John Good Gallery, New York, "Shaman : Apfulbaum, Bueys, Droese, Lucas, Martin, Polke"
Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Provocative Absrtaction : New
Painting New York"

1989
HBO Headquarters, New York, NY, "Contemporary Abstract Painting"
John Good Gallery, New York, NY, "Post Modern Painters"
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California, Lannan Aquisitions
Cyrus Gallery, New York, NY, "Painting Between Awareness and Desire"

1988
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona,
Spain, "Sightings - Drawing with Color"
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, PA, "Selections from the Edward Albee Collection"

1987
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, "Working in Brooklyn"


SELECTED PERFORMANCES

1996
14th Street Subway, New York, NY "The Desert (for Thomas Merton)"

1994
Mustard Factory, Brooklyn, NY, "Stories from the South Brooklyn Health Center (+ Healing Circle)"

1993
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, "45 Minutes Worth (Dedicated to Thomas Merton)"
Collaboration with Hit and Run Theater, Brooklyn, NY, "Seventh Circle of Hell – City of the Red Night"

1992
Thread Waxing Space, New York, "There's No Inside There's No Outside"

1991
Jiminez & Algus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Miles is in the Soup with Moon Woman"
John Good Gallery, New York, NY, "An Analysis of Paul Klee's Heroic Strokes of the Bow"

1990
Crosby Street, New York, NY, "The Silence of Joseph Beuys is Overrated"

Artist Exhibitions

Abstract - December 2, 2006 - January 6, 2007
American Abstraction - March 17 - April 25, 2008
Chris Martin - January 26 - March 1, 2008

Artist Images

Homage James Brown (Black and Blue)
2005-07
Acrylic, oil, collage on canvas
59 by 64 in. 149.9 by 162.6 cm


Classification of African Masks
2004-07
Acrylic gel, oil and collage on canvas
31 1/8 by 26 1/8 in. 79.1 by 66.4 cm


Isaac Hayes Painting
2006
Oil and mixed media on canvas
59 1/8 by 64 1/8 in. 150.2 by 162.9 cm


Untitled (Green Bumps)
2006
Acrylic gel, collage on canvas
54 by 49 in. 137.2 by 124.5 cm


Seven Pointed Star
2006
Oil and mixed media on masonite
20 by 16 in. 50.8 by 40.6 cm


In Memory of Al Held
2006
Acrylic, acrylic gel, oil and newsprint on canvas
43 1/8 by 30 1/8 in. 109.5 by 76.5 cm


Untitled
2006
Acrylic gel, oil, newsprint and banana peel on canvas
48 1/8 by 38 in. 122.2 by 96.5 cm


Untitled
2005
Acrylic, acrylic gel, paper towels, newsprint and oil on canvas
135 by 114 in. 342.9 by 289.6 cm


Homage Alfred + Bill #5
1982-95
Oil and felt on canvas
15 1/8 by 12 3/8 in. 38.4 by 31.4 cm


Broom Painting
2007
Oil on polyester
48 by 38 in. 121.9 by 96.5 cm


Glitter Painting
2007
Acrylic medium, spray paint, and glitter on wood
20 by 16 in. 50.8 by 40.6 cm.


August Afternoon, 11 Munn St. Walton N.Y.
2007
Oil, collage and gel medium on canvas
54 by 45 in. 137.2 by 114.3 cm


Seven-pointed star
2007
Oil and collage on canvas
48 by 38 1/8 in. 121.9 by 96.8 cm.