John Martin
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John Martin
John Martin introduces us to a world where fish transform into knives, alligators turn into saws, and the artist himself becomes a Nokia phone. John Martin is one of the most fascinating contemporary Black American artists today. This publication aims to build an understanding and appreciation of his unique visual language, extending beyond the arts and disability communities.
John Martin was born in 1963 in Marks, Mississippi, and currently lives and works in Oakland, California, at the Creative Growth Art Center. He creates drawings, ceramics, and woodwork that blend memories of his family farm in Mississippi with his modern life in Oakland. Martin often depicts images from his collection of found objects, interpreting their function while subverting practicality through outrageous animal mash-ups, oversized Leatherman tools, and mysterious text.
His wry sense of humour is evident in all of his compositions, where he transforms utilitarian imagery into a graphic and animated aesthetic.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9783777443164
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 April 2024
Country: Germany
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
Illustration: 150 Illustrations, color
Contributors:
- Text by Philip March Jones
- Photographs by Cheryl Dunn
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 241.0mm
Height: 290.0mm
Weight: 1380g
Pages: 175
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About the Author
Ginger Shulick Porcella is the Executive Director of Creative Growth Art Center, the premier organization for contemporary artists with developmental disabilities. She has curated critically acclaimed museum exhibitions such as: Amir H. Fallah: Scatter my Ashes on Foreign Lands; Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality and the Occult in Contemporary Art; and Dazzled: OMD, Memphis Design and Beyond. She is the founder of 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial and her exhibitions have been positively reviewed in Frieze, The New York Times, and Hyperallergic.
Philip March Jones is an artist, writer, and curator based in New York City. In 2009, Jones founded Institute 193, a nonprofit contemporary art space and publisher in Lexington, Kentucky. He later served as the inaugural director of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, and as director of the Galerie Christian Berst (New York/Paris) and the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York. Jones' photographs and writings have been published by the Jargon Society, Vanderbilt University Press, Dust-to-Digital and Poem 88, among others.
Cheryl Dunn is an American documentary filmmaker and photographer. She has made two feature films, Everybody Street (2013) and Moments Like This Never Last (2020). She has had three books of photographs published: Bicycle Gangs of New York (2005), Some Kinda Vocation (2007) and Festivals are Good (2015). Dunn's work has been exhibited at Tate Modern in London, Deitch Projects in New York City, and the Geffen Contemporary MOCA. She was one of the subjects in the documentary, book, and traveling museum exhibition Beautiful Losers.
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