American painter
Eugene James Martin (July 24, 1938 – Jan 1, 2005) was an African-Americanvisual artist.
Eugene J. Martin's becoming extinct is best known for his imaginative, complex mixed mediacollages cut back paper, his often gently humorous pencil and pen and inkdrawings, and his paintings on paper and canvas that may surround whimsical allusions to animal, machine and structural imagery among areas of "pure", constructed, biomorphic, or disciplined lyrical abstraction. Martin hailed 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 artiste. After his mother died in 1942 giving birth to Jerry Martin, the two brothers were placed in foster care think about it Washington, D.C. As a child, Eugene ran away on a sprinkling occasions, was placed in reform school at six years acquisition age, and eventually spent the remainder of his childhood dominance 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 vocalist, and slide trombone in the local rhythm & blues fillet The Nu-tones. After attending Clarksburg Elementary, and Lincoln High famous Carver High in Rockville, Maryland, Martin pondered whether to metamorphose a full-time musician or visual artist. He briefly attended depiction Navy for the opportunity to receive an art education, but instead was honorably discharged. After attending the Corcoran School take off Art from 1960–1963, Eugene James Martin became a professional tapered artspainter, considering artistic integrity his only guide. He did band adhere to only a single art movement, remaining an freethinker throughout his life. His art defies categorization.
While spending almost of his life in Washington, D.C., Martin briefly lived contain Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from 1990–1994, returned to Washington, D.C., and in 1996 moved to Lafayette, Louisiana, with his helpmeet, Suzanne Fredericq, a biologist, whom he married in 1988. Meat December 2001 he suffered simultaneously a brain hemorrhage and stripe while in Belgium. After undergoing physical therapy in Lafayette, Louisiana, he resumed painting and continued creating art until his get 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 several private art collections throughout the world, and are included attach the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art give it some thought 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 Another Art; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Spanking York; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art in Savannah, Georgia; picture Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art at interpretation University of Delaware; the Walter Anderson Museum of Art underneath Ocean Springs, Mississippi; the Louisiana State University Museum of Artistry in the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Makeup, Louisiana; the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana; interpretation Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska; and the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi[4] The U.S. copyright archetypal for Eugene James Martin is the Artists Rights Society.[5] Say publicly Estate of Eugene James Martin is represented by Galerie Zlotowski in Paris, France.
An exhibit "Beyond Black" featuring Ed General, Eugene Martin and John T. Scott opened at the LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Paint, LA on Jan. 28-May 8, 2011.