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J. Kent Martin

Unrest

Unrest

€1.464,92 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:
2022
Dimensions:
22.5 × 28.5 × 1.3in
Edition:
Original 1/1
Style:
J. Kent Martin’s "Unrest" is built on a pale, weathered field that carries the eye across a dense skin of scraping, staining, and overlaid passage. The surface is granular and worked through with small speckled marks, broken seams, and exposed underlayers, giving the painting the character of an aerial terrain mapped by erosion. Bands of black and a vertical red column interrupt the neutral ground and organize the composition into a rigorous grid of shifting blocks and crossings. The work stands in conversation with postwar abstract painting, especially the material emphasis of process-based abstraction and the spatial logic of hard-edge and minimalist order translated into a lived, tactile surface.
Tags:
abstract expressionism,mixed media,layered surface,aerial landscape,grid,weathered texture,neutral palette,black and red,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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