Artist Statement:

AMERICA MARTIN

America Martin is a fine artist based in Los Angeles.  She studied with Vernon Wilson, professor of painting and drawing at Art Center School of Design, and was a scholarship student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA.

America Martin is a traveler between mediums. Her paintings and drawings are emphatic expressions of playful references to a number of the major schools of the twentieth century, as well as to enduring indigenous art forms.  America’s favorite landscape is the landscape of the human form.  Her work is distinguished by a command of line and color and is firmly grounded in the classics.

She is currently working on a large series of peopled urban landscapes painted in oil and ink on paper and canvas.  About her work, Martin says, “It is true. The artist is not born to a life of pleasure, She cannot be idle. It is only duty and discipline that make art. The artist is gluttonous, constantly devouring life in order to translate all that she sees, smells, lives or breathes into her own language. There is no choosing this life, an artist paints because she must.”

The Paintings: 

I paint all my paintings on raw un-primed canvas, they are then done in many layers of Oil paint & Oil stick & Acrylic paint on heavy cotton canvas. They are then varnished.

The Paper Pieces:

I work on only 100% cotton cold pressed paper they are then done in Oil stick and Ink concentrate.