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Review: At Robischon, Eight Solos Add Up to a Major Look at Contemporary Abstraction
by Michael Paglia, January 25, 2017
In Martin’s paintings, horizontal bars are the chief formal device; this has been the artist’s signature for the past five years.
…these solos resolve into a single coherent visual experience because all of the artists are dealing with the same issue: how to do something different with abstraction, arguably the style of our time. And they all succeed in their own distinctive ways. Martin adds an expressive, painterly aspect to the mix of geometric shapes and straight lines, and his stacked rectilinear shapes are painted and repainted with gauzy layers of pigments, allowing the earlier coats to show through in areas and lending the bars a scuffed-looking quality.
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