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J. Kent Martin

Bygone

Bygone

€4.469,25 EUR
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My work explores the intersection between structure, landscape, and human experience. Inspired by aerial views of farmland and the ordered patterns of roads and city streets, my paintings translate these landscapes into layered abstract compositions. From above, fields, intersections, and neighborhoods reveal the quiet geometry that shapes how we move through the world and connect with one another. Each painting develops through a process of layering, scraping, erosion, and staining. I work with a variety of materials, allowing them to interact and respond to one another as the surface evolves. Earlier marks remain visible beneath later ones, creating textures that suggest time, memory, and the accumulation of lived experience. The process is intuitive and often unpredictable. I embrace the element of discovery that occurs as the work unfolds, much like the unexpected turns that shape our lives. Through these layered surfaces and intersecting forms, I aim to reflect both the structure of the landscape and the human stories that exist within it.

Artwork Details

Artist:
J. Kent Martin
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Year Created:
2023
Dimensions:
36 × 36 × 1.5in
Edition:
Original 1/1
Style:
Bygone confronts the eye with a dense, weathered field of beige, taupe, black, olive, and muted plum, cut by small bursts of orange that flash like survey markers across a reclaimed surface. Martin builds the composition through stacked, scraped, and rubbed layers, so the painting reads as both wall and map: opaque passages sit beside scumbled transparency, and rough accretions interrupt smoother paint skin. The square format contains a restless network of horizontal bands and vertical seams that recall aerial grids, roads, and field divisions without resolving into literal landscape. The work stands in the lineage of postwar abstraction where surface carries memory, aligning Martin with artists who treat paint as terrain and time as structure.
Tags:
abstract expressionism,mixed media,layered surface,aerial landscape,earth tones,textural abstraction,urban grid,memory,erosion

About J. Kent Martin

J. Kent Martin, based in Springfield, MO, creates original artwork available to collect on Art Emerge, an AI-powered marketplace for artists and collectors.

Key Facts

  • Location: Springfield, MO

J. Kent Martin (b. 1967) is a Springfield, Missouri–based abstract painter whose work is inspired by aerial views of farmland and the structured patterns of roads and urban streets. His mixed-media paintings translate these landscapes into layered compositions of intersecting forms, textured surfaces, and weathered marks that suggest both physical terrain and human presence. Working with repurposed materials, Martin builds each piece through a process of accumulation and erosion—applying, scraping, staining, and reworking layers of material to reveal traces of earlier gestures. The resulting surfaces evoke the passage of time and the evolving relationships between land, community, and movement. Having spent his professional life in the home furnishings industry and now a home furnishings designer, Martin’s work reflects a sensitivity to architecture, materiality, and spatial design.

Artist Statement

My work explores the intersection between structure, landscape, and human experience. Inspired by aerial views of farmland and the ordered patterns of roads and city streets, my paintings translate these landscapes into layered abstract compositions. From above, fields, intersections, and neighborhoods reveal the quiet geometry that shapes how we move through the world and connect with one another. Each painting develops through a process of layering, scraping, erosion, and staining.

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