Knox Martin
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| Born | February 12, 1923 Barranquilla, Colombia |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Painter, Muralist, Sculptor |
| Training | Art Students League of New York |
| Movement | Abstract expressionism, New York School |
| Works | Venus (mural) (1970), Woman with bicycle (1979) |
| Awards | NEA Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, C.A.P.S. Grant, Longview Fellowships |
Knox Martin is an American painter, sculptor and muralist.
Born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950. He is one of the leading members of New York School - a group of artists and writers. He lives and works in New York City.
"Art is at its cutting edge out of a specific lineage - the creation of reality. The subject matter of what I do, is creation." - Knox Martin (1999).[1]
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[edit] Work
Knox Martin is best known for his repertory of signs and symbols that allude to nature and, in particular, to the female form. Flatly and freely painted in Pop colors, his works have often been executed on a grand scale, as in the outdoor wall painting, Woman with bicycle, at West Houston and MacDougal Streets in Manhattan.[2] He mostly creates painting, sculpture and wall paintings using media such as acrylic, collage, fresco, ink drawing (Pen and Ink), Mixed-Media/Multi-Media and oil.[3]
One of his wall paintings in New York City is the ten-story mural Venus. [4] It is located on the south side of Bayview Correctional Facility at 19th Street and the West Side Highway. [5]
"Traditionally the goddess of love and fertility, Venus represents woman, erotic and supple, but it also conveys Knox Martin's love affair with New York. Venus is his love poem to the city where he has always lived, a place that is part of his being. The feminine, curvilinear shapes of the image are in direct contrast with the straight forms that intersect the composition. The overwhelming size of this enormous mural only intensifies the experience of female shapes, the linear aspects of the painted composition, and of the surrounding architecture. In an era when art was reaching out to the masses with pop culture, this huge mural was Knox Martin's way of touching a public that would never venture into an art gallery." [6]
[edit] Collections
Knox Martin's work is included in the collections of Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden[7], Art Students League of New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, National Arts Club, New York University, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York State Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum[8], Boca Raton Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, Heckscher Museum of Art, Ithaca Museum, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Lowe Art Museum, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art[9], Springfield Art Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum[10], Wellesley College, William Benton Museum of Art, Israel Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale.
In 2002 Knox Martin was named to the National Academy of Design. [11]
[edit] Teaching
Knox Martin gives Master Classes at the Art Students League of New York.[1] He taught at Yale Graduate School of Art, first as visiting critic in art, and then as Professor of Art. He also taught at New York University, the University of Minnesota, and the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy.[12]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b Knox Martin - About The Artist
- ^ Art; Knox Martin: Angry But More Human - New York Times
- ^ Knox Martin - Artist, Art - Knox Martin
- ^ After a 37-Year Run, a Roadside Venus to Be Veiled - New York Times
- ^ Knox Martin and his Roadside Venus
- ^ Marilyn Kushner, Knox Martin: Early Work, exh. cat. (New York: Janos Gat Gallery, 1997)
- ^ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- ^ BAM/PFA - Art Collection
- ^ SAMA - Press Releases
- ^ Weatherspoon Art Museum - UNC Greensboro
- ^ National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
- ^ Knox Martin - Artist, Art - Knox Martin
[edit] Books
- Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
- Irving Sandler, From Avant-Garde to Pluralism: An On-The-Spot History, (Hard Press Editions, 2006.)ISBN 1889097683
[edit] External links
- Knox Martin Website
- Janos Gat Gallery
- Art Students League of New York
- National Academy of Design
- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
- Smithsonian Archives of American Art
