Artists

Jason Martin

Press release

At the heart of Jason Martin’s exhibition is a group of new large very colorful works on paper in which the artist experiments with dyes. These colors do not contain pigments, like oil or acrylic paints, but have a reactive and complex relationship with moisture, light, and heat. The results of the complex painterly process are sometimes unpredictable and enable the artist an interesting interplay between control and chance.

In dialog with the works on paper are new large-format, energetic oil paintings, whose lyrical impression and color spectrum are reminiscent of light phenomena in nature. 
Martin consistently explores the possibilities and facets of abstract painting in his brightly colored and sometimes opulent art. In his work, which is situated somewhere between Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism, Martin repeatedly uses new and surprising methods and techniques of applying paint or the materials used to address fundamental questions about the illusion and rhetoric of painting.

For Jason Martin, painting is also a performative act that often leaves room for chance to create works that are diverse, seductive, and full of energy. This can be seen in the oil paintings, whose widest outer dimension corresponds to the length of a horizontal line drawn in one go, as well as in the richly colored works on paper, which produce an incalculable result within the time frame of their creation.
Jason Martin (*1970, lives and works in London and Portugal). 

The He Art Museum (HEM Museum) in Foshan/China is showing Jason Martin in a major solo exhibition in summer 2025.