Ned Martin

"Fausto's Awakening, " Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting

2022

This abstract painting of flying birds in the sky is made with oil paint on aluminum panel. On the bottom half of the canvas, five white birds with dark feathers on the tips of their...

This abstract painting by artist Ned Martin features a blue heron in profile, looking to the right side of the canvas. The background is composed of blue, silver, and black squares t...

This abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and aluminum on board. It features two blue and green birds, one at the top right-hand corner and one at the bottom left, ...

This abstract portrait painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint on panel. Part of the artist's Spirits Through Time series, it features a woman's face rendered realistically, wi...

(Very difficult to photograph inside the case with glass front, so we took a few outside the case. A video is included that we hope helps, thought it suffers from reflections on the ...

Artist's Statement: "Around 30 years ago, not long after I had started painting seriously, I was at a one-man exhibition of the great Brice Marden at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art when I visited the annex to get a cocktail. There was one other guy at the small bar table in an otherwise empty room, waiting for his coffee to be handed to him. He turned and dumped half of it down my front. I immediately recognized him as none other than Brice Marden. He apologized profusely, but I stopped him and said: 'No problem: how often is it that Brice Marden dumps coffee on your pants? They're worth more now.' We both had a good laugh. At any rate - I was certainly channeling his early work when I began work on this series. They are made with oil and beeswax on wood panels. While they look Minimalist at first glance, there are subtle shifts in color and texture that distinguish them from hard-edged abstraction. For me, it has always been about the surface, and the materials. Wax has a character unlike anything else. I use wax both hot (encaustic) and in a cold mixture with turpentine, blended with oil. The complementary underpainting, setting the stage for the wax and oil later...

Artist's Statement: "Around 30 years ago, not long after I had started painting seriously, I was at a one-man exhibition of the great Brice Marden at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern...

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