Jason Martin

Jason Martin's monochrome paintings consist of thick layers of oil or acrylic paint spread in one fluid motion over a reflective metal surface, such as aluminium. This process is repeated until the perfect balance of colour, transparency and streaks is achieved. Martin has a unique style, balancing the boundaries of action painting, minimalism and abstract expressionism with his three-dimensional works.
To achieve the perfect brushstroke, he paints some works with an extremely wide brush, which makes it impossible to correct the brushstroke afterwards. In others, he uses large scrapers or palette knives.
The interplay between incident light and modelled surfaces creates reflections and a spectrum of colours, adding another dimension to the monochrome works.
In his pigment works, Martin uses colour-intensive pigments and acrylic paint. These introverted, exploratory paintings have surfaces reminiscent of the moon or of something seen under a microscope at several hundred times magnification. Through these works, Martin experiments with the boundaries and potential of surface and material, colour and form, and naturalism and abstraction. Martin's work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, including at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in 2009. He has held solo exhibitions at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and Lisson Gallery, among others. Jason Martin's most recent exhibition in Sweden was "The Time Between Us" at the Wetterling Gallery in 2023. His works are included in numerous private and public collections worldwide, including the Denver Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Salzburg, Austria.