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J. Kent Martin

Collision

Collision

€1.762,87 EUR
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This original mixed-media abstract painting by J. Kent Martin is inspired by aerial views of farmland and the ordered patterns of roads and city streets. Built through layers of paint that are scraped, eroded, and stained, the surface reveals intersecting forms and textures that evoke the geometry of cultivated landscapes. The piece is framed as shown and ready to hang.

Artwork Details

Artist:
J. Kent Martin
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Year Created:
2020
Dimensions:
21 × 21 × 2.5in
Edition:
Original 1/1
Style:
J. Kent Martin’s Collision centers a dense field of vertical, weathered bands against a dark ground, and the eye meets the image as a compressed aerial map turned to abstraction. The palette is restrained to charcoal, slate, bone, taupe, and ash white, with the brightest passages scraped across the upper register like bleached roads or field boundaries. Martin builds the surface through accretion and removal: paint is dragged, eroded, stained, and fractured so that earlier layers remain legible beneath newer passages. The work stands in conversation with postwar material abstraction and the cartographic strain of landscape painting, where terrain is translated into structure, rhythm, and tactility.
Tags:
abstract landscape,material abstraction,aerial view,layered surface,earth tones,scraped paint,cartographic,weathered,contemporary abstraction

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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