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			            Heather Gwen Martin, Axis, 2011<br>
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<div class="exhibitorName">Heather Gwen Martin</div><div class="bio">Drawing from comics, television, and everyday situations, Heather Gwen Martin's abstract paintings explore playfully violent scenarios where household objects morph into cartoon weapons and imagined forces battle each other against bright, acidic-hued backgrounds.  Martin subverts the traditional rules of painting, offering canvases whose flat spaces open up three-dimensionally in ways that skew balance, proportionality, and composition. Contrasting this tension and awkward balance is her clean, controlled brush work and highly saturated colors, qualities directly influenced by her experience over the past decade as a digital colorist for comics.  Martin acknowledges, "Technology has affected the way that my hand, eye, and brain work because I spent a lot of time at a computer with my hand making shapes and color.  You have to be precise with your hand.  It's not real color—it's the color on the screen, instant and artificial with clean lines precise down to the pixel."  
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<br>Critic and curator Peter Frank has written of Martin:
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<br>“The tendrilous lines Martin employs, and the bulbous but brittle shapes she describes with them, appear in other contemporary painting and drawing, as does her palette, especially its almost painfully vivid chromatic levels. But nobody—nobody—else employing these now-commonplace formalisms makes them work this way, or even achieves quite this level of power, allure, and eloquence. …Her intense colors—and, especially, her raucous color combinations, sliding close hues and values almost painfully upon one another—owe a debt to the '60s-era hard-edge painting of such artists as Ellsworth Kelly, Leon Polk Smith, Jack Youngerman, Nicholas Krushenick and Deborah Remington. I have no idea whose work Martin knew previously…but in this case we're not talking influences, we're talking shoulders of giants. This is the panoply of American painters in which we can already place Martin.”
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<br>Heather Gwen Martin’ second solo exhibition at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, “Recreational Systems”, garnered impressive critical reviews and was singled out as one of the top exhibitions in Los Angeles in 2010.  Her work was recently featured in the survey exhibition “Here Not There” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and is included in that Museum’s permanent collection, as well as in numerous private and public collections throughout the United States.  Heather Gwen Martin was born in 1977 in Saskatchewan, Canada, and studied at the University of California, San Diego (BA with Honors, 1999) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001).  She lives and works in Los Angeles.
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