Cameron Martin (artist)
{{Short description|American artist (born 1970)}}
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Cameron Martin (born 1970) is an American contemporary artist. He is the co-chair of the Painting Department at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.{{cite web |title=Cameron Martin Faculty Page, Bard College |url=https://www.bard.edu/mfa/bios/index.php?id=99959695 |website=Bard College |accessdate=April 19, 2020}} He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Early life and education
Martin was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1970. He received a B.A. in Art and Semiotics from Brown University in 1994. He continued his studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1996.{{cite web |title=Van Doren Waxter, Cameron Martin |url=https://www.vandorenwaxter.com/artists/cameron-martin |website=Van Doren Waxter |accessdate=April 19, 2020}} In the early 90s, Martin maintained a short career as a professional skateboarder. In 1990-1991, he belonged to the Bones Brigade, a team that notably included Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, and Steve Caballero.{{cite web |title=Past Life - via 1991 Magazine |url=https://quartersnacks.com/2015/11/past-life-via-1991-a-year-magazine/#more-31050 |website=Quartersnacks.com |date=November 17, 2015 |publisher=1991 Magazine |accessdate=May 19, 2020}}
Work
Martin first became known for his depictions of meticulously rendered landscape paintings informed by semiotics.{{cite web |last1=Shane |first1=Robert |title=CAMERON MARTIN: ABSTRACTS AND RETICULATIONS |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2017/09/artseen/MARTIN-ABSTRACTS-AND-RETICULATIONS |website=The Brooklyn Rail |date=September 7, 2017 |accessdate=May 19, 2020}}
In a conversation between the artist Amy Sillman and Martin, Sillman notes that, “It is almost impossible to know whether they are paintings or screen prints, or printed prints, or prints with paintings over them”. Where the image exists, and how it exists, are questions repeatedly asked in Martin’s work.
In an essay by the artist Dike Blair on Martin’s work, he describes the relationship to time, and the unfolding events within the image, he writes, “like all of Martin’s, [they] are steeped in romanticism; yet just as clearly they are products of an analytic eye and mind, and a trained and restrained hand".{{cite web |last1=Blair |first1=Dike |title=Cameron Martin by Dike Blair |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/cameron-martin/ |website=Bomb Magazine |accessdate=May 19, 2020}}
In 2014, Martin’s paintings pivoted towards abstraction.{{cite web |title=CAMERON MARTIN: ABSTRACTS |url=https://www.albany.edu/university-art-museum/exhibitions/cameron-martin-abstracts |website=University at Albany, State University of New York |accessdate=May 19, 2020}} Martin's work in abstraction has been cited as painting “committed to the experience of painting, with unorthodox techniques, and mesmerizing surfaces.”{{cite web |last1=Lindquist |first1=Greg |title=CAMERON MARTIN with Greg Lindquist |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2011/03/art/cameron-martin-with-greg-lindquist |website=The Brooklyn Rail |date=March 4, 2011 |accessdate=May 19, 2020}}
Martin's current paintings explore the aesthetic of virtual technologies, drawing comparisons to Op Art, and the light patterns of contemporary electronic devices such as portable screens, tablets, and smart phones.
Exhibition history
In 2004, Martin’s work was exhibited in the Whitney Biennial. Institutional exhibitions include the Philbrook Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and most recently in 2017 at the University Art Museum at SUNY Albany. Martin’s solo show at the University Art Museum in Albany in 2017 exhibited his recent turn towards abstraction.
Collections
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio{{Cite web|url=https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search?filter-artist=Cameron%20Martin|title=Search the Collection | Cleveland Museum of Art}}
- Seattle Art Museum, Washington{{Cite web|url=http://art.seattleartmuseum.org/people/11696/cameron-martin|title=Cameron Martin – Artists – eMuseum|website=art.seattleartmuseum.org}}
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota{{cite web |title=Mia Collections, Cameron Martin |url=https://collections.artsmia.org/search/cameron%20martin |website=Minneapolis Institute of Art |accessdate=May 19, 2020}}
- Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri{{Cite web|url=https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/47283/|title=Remission|website=Saint Louis Art Museum}}
- U.S. State Department Art Bank Program, Washington DC{{cite web |title=Cameron Martin |url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/cameron_martin/ |website=Art in Embassies U.S Department of State |accessdate=May 19, 2020}}
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/artists/9252|title=Cameron Martin|website=whitney.org}}
Recognition
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2010){{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/cameron-martin/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Cameron Martin}}
- Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship (2008){{Cite web|url=https://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/artist-grants/painter-sculptors/2008/cameron-martin|title=Artist Programs » Artist Grants|first=Joan Mitchell|last=Foundation|website=joanmitchellfoundation.org}}
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation award (2000){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4aHqAAAAMAAJ&q=cameron+martin+pollock+krasner|title=Focus 3: Cameron Martin|first1=Cameron|last1=Martin|first2=Philbrook Museum of|last2=Art|date=May 19, 2006|publisher=Philbrook Museum of Art|via=Google Books}}
- Artists at Giverny Fellowship and Residency in Giverny, France (2001)
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:American male painters
Category:American postmodern artists
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Category:American contemporary painters
Category:American abstract painters
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Category:Painters from Washington (state)