Untitled
Chris Martin
American, born 1954
Details
Title
Untitled
Artist/Maker
Chris Martin (American, born 1954)
Date
2005
Medium
Acrylic, paper towels, newsprint, oil on canvas
Dimensions
134 5/8 × 114 1/8 inches
Credit
Gift of the Alex Katz Foundation
Accession #
2016.549
Location
Currently not on view
Chris Martin’s Untitled evokes a vastness that can be found in both the star-lined night sky or an endlessly stretched midnight highway. Such locational duplicity is reflective of the artist himself, who, though a long-time fixture of the New York City art scene, has a lifelong relationship with the rural Catskill mountains. A Yale dropout and retired art therapist, Martin has no qualms about using unconventional media and methods. On second look, one can see newsprint and even household paper towels in this celestial abstraction.