Cameron Martin

Reticulation, 2019
Permanent marker on paper
Framed: 10 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches (27.62 x 22.23 cm)

Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, NY

Selected by The Drawing Center

Cameron Martin’s paintings feature overlapping and undulating forms in varying transparencies, patterns, and geometries, producing visual phenomena that tap into histories of non-objective art and present-day digital interfaces. Using a vivid chromatic palette, he employs techniques that intentionally complicate the distinction between the handmade and the mechanical, working from the foundation of abstraction towards the possibilities of representation. He received his BA from Brown University in Art/Semiotics and continued his studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Columbus Museum of Art, and City Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand). Martin is a recipient of awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and a Pollock Krasner Award, among others. He is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York. He is F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.