Tom Martin | Montages: beyond still life

Montages : beyond still life TOM MARTIN

186 State Street Binghamton NY, 13901

tel. +1 607 772 0485 www.anthonybrunelli.com

Montages : beyond still life TOM MARTIN

An Online Virtual Exhibtion March 26, 2021 - April 23, 2021

Hold up wait ... let me Take a Selfie, 2020 acrylic, oil paint, silk screen print and machine embroidery on linen 63 x 63 in.

They kept dropping the B bomb, so we took a walk and felt free, 2019 acrylic, oil paint, silk screen print on linen 47 x 71 in.

If we’re still alive this time next year we should probably hang out or something, 2018 acrylic, oil paint, silk screen print on linen 63 x 63 in.

When life gives you lemons, 2018 acrylic, oil, and silk screen print on linen 67 x 51 in.

Time Machine, 2020 acrylic, oil paint, silk screen print on linen 29.5 x 43 in.

Eternaly Mine, 2018 acrylic, oil, and silk screen print on linen 67 x 51 in.

Portrait of Tom Martin in Studio (Image courtesy of Andy Hook)

“My work is very much an exploration of what it is to be human in this current time, in the now. To be more specific, what it is to be human from my perspective. There are so many different elements to life that we all have to some how fit together, be they work, or leisure or family etc. All of these things have to find their own space within time.

I’m very much interested in how objects can be in flux with the passing of time. I create still lives which are subjected to ‘happenings’ and shifts in energy causing directed chaos and elements of surprise. Capturing moments during these happenings throws up new and unexpected perspectives. In a way the work is self indulgent, I’m trying to figure out how my life hangs together and more over what the purpose of it all is.

My paintings are a transcendence of representational painting in that they share the same origins. Layering up this various source material retaining certain parts and rejecting others, through multiple techniques, come forth unexpected elements of abstraction on the canvas. I’m interested in finding form from and giving meaningful purpose to these abstractions whilst preserving their origins.”

- Tom Martin

Gallery : 186 State Street Binghamton NY, 13901 tel. +1 607 772 0485 www.anthonybrunelli.com

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