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bio
Eugene J. Martin's art is best known for his complex mixed media collages on paper, his often gently humorous pencil and pen and ink drawings, and his paintings on paper and canvas that may incorporate whimsical allusions to animal, machine and structural imagery among areas of "pure", constructed, biomorphic or lyrical abstraction.
Eugene James Martin did not adhere to any particular school or art movement, remaining an individualist throughout his life. His art defies categorization. After attending the Corcoran School of Art from 1960-1963, he became a professional fine arts painter, considering artistic integrity his only guide. He briefly lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from 1990-1994, returned to Washington DC, and in 1996 moved to Lafayette, Louisiana with his wife, a biologist, whom he married in 1988.
Eugene Martin's works of art can be found in numerous private art collections throughout the world, and are included in the permanent collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana; the Stowitts Museum & Library in Pacific Grove, California; the Munich Museum of Modern Art; the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art in Savannah, Georgia, the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art at the University of Delaware, and the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
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website
http://morayeel.louisiana.edu/ejMARTIN/ejMARTIN-artist.html
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There are currently 2 comments
What a fascinating man and artist!
from: Marie
Eugene Martin is an extraordinary artist. Thanks for posting this interview.
from: Apple
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