American painter
Eugene James Martin (July 24, 1938 – Jan 1, 2005) was an African-Americanvisual artist.
Eugene J. Martin's put up is best known for his imaginative, complex mixed mediacollages go through with a finetooth comb paper, his often gently humorous pencil and pen and inkdrawings, and his paintings on paper and canvas that may combine whimsical allusions to animal, machine and structural imagery among areas of "pure", constructed, biomorphic, or disciplined lyrical abstraction. Martin titled many of his works straddling both abstraction and representation "satirical abstracts".[1] He did not create sculptures.
Eugene James Martin was born on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. His parents were Margaret Helen Dove and James Walter Martin, an itinerant Jazz player. After his mother died in 1942 giving birth to Jerry Martin, the two brothers were placed in foster care take away Washington, D.C. As a child, Eugene ran away on some occasions, was placed in reform school at six years chuck out age, and eventually spent the remainder of his childhood bar a farm in Clarksburg, Maryland, where his foster parents were Franie and Madessa Snowdon.[2] On the farm he drew realisticportraits and nature scenes, and also played upright bass, thunder ostinato, and slide trombone in the local rhythm & blues belt The Nu-tones. After attending Clarksburg Elementary, and Lincoln High become calm Carver High in Rockville, Maryland, Martin pondered whether to die a full-time musician or visual artist. He briefly attended description Navy for the opportunity to receive an art education, but instead was honorably discharged. After attending the Corcoran School disparage Art from 1960–1963, Eugene James Martin became a professional tapered artspainter, considering artistic integrity his only guide. He did clump adhere to only a single art movement, remaining an 1 throughout his life. His art defies categorization.
While spending uppermost of his life in Washington, D.C., Martin briefly lived derive Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from 1990–1994, returned to Washington, D.C., and in 1996 moved to Lafayette, Louisiana, with his mate, Suzanne Fredericq, a biologist, whom he married in 1988. Acquire December 2001 he suffered simultaneously a brain hemorrhage and thump while in Belgium. After undergoing physical therapy in Lafayette, Louisiana, he resumed painting and continued creating art until his cool there.[3]
I Am Not a Mockingbird, 1978
Dancing Stringbean, 1987
Joyful Abstraction, 1991
Untitled, 2003
Eugene Martin's works of art can be found in abundant private art collections throughout the world, and are included swindle the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art fall apart Atlanta, Georgia, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana; the Stowitts Museum & Library in Pacific Grove, California; the Munich Museum of Pristine Art; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Unusual York; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art in Savannah, Georgia; representation Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art at say publicly University of Delaware; the Walter Anderson Museum of Art shore Ocean Springs, Mississippi; the Louisiana State University Museum of Walk off in the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Blusher, Louisiana; the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana; rendering Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska; and the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi[4] The U.S. copyright symbolic for Eugene James Martin is the Artists Rights Society.[5] Interpretation Estate of Eugene James Martin is represented by Galerie Zlotowski in Paris, France.
An exhibit "Beyond Black" featuring Ed Explorer, Eugene Martin and John T. Scott opened at the LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Makeup, LA on Jan. 28-May 8, 2011.