Portrait of Chris Martin, pencil on paper, by Phong Bui. Courtesy of Phong Bui.
Portrait of Chris Martin, pencil on paper, by Phong Bui. Courtesy of Phong Bui.
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Off The Rail:
Chris Martin
Originally aired on Monday, March 23rd, 2009
The debut of a new series, Off the Rail, hosted by artist, curator and The Brooklyn Rail publisher Phong Bui. For this first segment the guest is artist Chris Martin, whose works are a felicitous alchemy of his influences and references - from Blinky Palermo to Philip Guston to Frank Stella - and whatever tools and materials he may have at hand. His paintings seem at once nighttime reveries of faraway landscapes and fanciful impressions of our most intimate biological structures (57 minutes).
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