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Finestrae

September 23, 2006- October 31, 2006

Lloyd Martin

Stephen Haller Gallery

542 W 26th St

Lloyd Martin’s paintings embody what art critic Maureen Mullarkey describes as a “seductive minimalism, one that retains some whisper of lived experience.” His subject is the transformative nature of time and use, the wrenching yet natural events of decay and revitalization of the urban landscape around his studio. Martin’s imagery is stunningly simple, pared down to a kind of rhythmic symmetry of his own devising.

Martin begins his artistic process by photographing his immediate surroundings, yet that influence may later be detected only in a color situation or spatial metaphor. His compositions reflect synthetic rhythms such as the serrations found in ventilation or heating units, or alterations of architectural situations.

Architecture critic James Gardner wrote in The New York Sun (Aug.7, 06) of the:

emergence of a new phase of taste among the younger generation, an appreciation of hulking, superannuated infrastructure, no longer as a functional necessity, but as a compelling, and quintessentially urban backdrop. Just as the 18th century discovered the natural sublime, so today many people find a kind of manmade sublimity in the hulk’s of a city’s decaying structure.

Lloyd Martin is the painter of this new moment. Just as the Hudson River School artists reproduced their vision of the arcadia of the 18th century (nature as the sublime) so Martin documents and paints his vision of the details of the post-Industrial cityscape – a reinterpretation of the timeworn environment surrounding his studio.

Many contemporary artists are unwitting collaborators in the transformation of post-industrial American cities – their studios revitalizing abandoned factory spaces. Martin embraces this reality and turns it into something painterly and sublime.

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