Lloyd Martin is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. The art world press has often covered his work and he has been the recipient of many fellowships in painting as well as two in drawing, revealing his heightened awareness of line and form. That skill is evident in his Landfall Press series of prints in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

EDUCATION

1980 | BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Monument – K. Oss Gallery, Detroit MI

2019 Lloyd Martin – Friesen Gallery Ketchum, Sun Valley Idaho

2019 Lloyd Martin – Incidental Structure William Campbell Contemporary Art,

Fort Worth Texas

2018 Lloyd Martin Ambit Friesen Gallery Ketchum, Sun Valley Idaho

2017 Lloyd Martin Robishon Gallery Denver, Colorado

2016 Lloyd Martin Cynthia Reeves, Mass MOCA Campus Gallery

Lloyd Martin Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2015 Interval Stux+Haller Gallery New York, NY

2013 Lloyd Martin – Works on Paper Roshkowska Galleries Hudson, NY

Lloyd Martin: Strata Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2012 Mettere Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2011 Interstices Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Shift Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Traverse Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2007 Lloyd Martin EM Bannister Gallery, RI College, Providence, RI

Tracts Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Lloyd Martin Roshkowska Gallery, Windham, NY

2006 Finestrae Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY (Catalogue)

2005 Lloyd Martin Spheris Gallery, Walpole, NH

Lloyd Martin Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Works on Paper, Roshkowska Gallery, Windham, NY

2004 Lloyd Martin Migrate Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

Lloyd Martin Paintings Spheris Gallery, Bellows Falls, VT

Lloyd Martin Roshkowska Gallery, Windham, NY

2003 Lloyd Martin Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Lloyd Martin Roshkowska Gallery, Windham, NY

2002 Lloyd Martin Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Lloyd Martin Paintings Urban Shelter, Pawtucket, RI

Lloyd Martin Spheris Gallery, Walpole, NH

Abstract Events 2 Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

2001 Lloyd Martin Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2000 Abstract Events Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

1998 Lloyd Martin Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

1997 Lloyd Martin Trustman Gallery, Boston, MA

1993 Lloyd Martin Hunt Cavanaugh Gallery, Providence, RI

1991 Lloyd Martin Gallery One, School One, Providence, RI

1985 Lloyd Martin AS220 Gallery, Providence, RI

1981 Lloyd Martin Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Praxis:Abstraction Four Strategies – curated by Robert Rustemier The Bristol Art

Museum, Bristol, RI

Meltdown – Jessica hagen Gallery Newport, RI

2019 Achievement in Art, Amarillo Museum of Art; Amarillo, TX

Lloyd Martin-Michael Cochran, Emotional Structure”Grimshaw-Gudewicz

Gallery, Fall River, MA

2016 Lloyd Martin, Willard Boepple Cynthia Reeves Gallery, The Barn, Walpole,

New Hampshire

2015 Group Matrix Stux+Haller New York,NY

2013 The Geometry of Longing Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2012 Concurrence Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Paper Rocks Scissors Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2011 Connections Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

A Collections Exhibition: Montford and Bannister Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island

College, Providence, RI

Spectrum Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Ten from Ten the Director’s Cut Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Fall River, MA

2010 Abstraction in Providence Bannister Gallery, Providence, RI

Nexus Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2010 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition Imago Gallery, Warren, RI

2009 Landscape as Grid (two person show) Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

In Context Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

The Point of Convergence Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Recent Acquisitions Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC

Continuum Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Confluence Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

RISCA Fellowship Exhibition Machines With Magnets, Pawtucket, RI

Constant Aesthetic 2008 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2007 Lloyd Martin: Works on Paper Roshkowska Galleries, Windham, NY

ART20 2007 The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

The Grid Reeves Contemporary, New York, NY 3

Drawing Now Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Jackson Arts Center, Fall River, MA

The Grid Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH

f&c/r&r Foley & Cox, New York, NY

Back to the Future: Contemporary American Art from the Collection Meade Art

Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

2006 ART20 2006 The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

Solstice Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Traces of Drawing Gallerie Pierre, Taichung Taiwan (catalogue)

Eye on Art 54 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT

2005 Focal Point Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Two person show Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

Two person show Spheris Gallery, Bellows Falls, VT

Costello Childs Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ

Korean and American Contemporary Paintings Sejong Center for Performing Arts

Art Museum, Seoul Korea

2004 2 x 2 x 2 Grimshaw Gudewicz Art Gallery, Falls River, MA

Narrative Abstraction Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Constant Aesthetic 2004 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Narrative Abstraction Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Off the Beaten Track: Contemporary Mindscapes Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA

Constant Aesthetic 2003 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Lloyd Martin Paintings Roshkowska Galleries, Windham, NY

Coda Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Group Exhibiton Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

2002 Surface Fragments Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

The Abstract Mind New England College, New Hampshire 4

The American River (Catalogue) Traveling Museum Show, Curated by Carl Belz

Brattleboro Museum, VT; TW Wood Museum, Vermont College, VT ; Florence

Griswold Museum, Lyme, CT; Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA

2001 Constant Aesthetic 2001 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Aesthetic Boundaries Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

2000 Simple Truths Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Painting Anderson Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

Surface Tension, Part I Ste phen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Painting Abstraction (Organized by Graham Nickson, Curator: Cindy Schwab)

T he New York Studio School, New York, NY

Constant Aesthetic 2000 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

American artist Lloyd Martin, known internationally for his rhythmically constructed abstract painting, continues his engagement with color and line in this outstanding body of work. Critic John Goodman wrote that Martin’s paintings “achieve a Mondrianesque climax of rhythm.” And it is this sense of movement, of rhythm, of flow that delights the eye as it is drawn along the forms and juxtapositions of bright-hued lush colors that are characteristic of the artist’s recent work. In critic Maureen Mullarkey’s words, Martin’s paintings “approach the character of music.”

Writers often reference Mondrian and music when describing Martin’s work. In these paintings, each note holds its own, yet there is a velocity of linear movement. Martin’s work is characterized by a sensuous quality in the sometimes-brushy aggression of one vibrant color pushing against another. For the viewer there is a visual pleasure in editing details of the work, allowing the eye to settle on a square here a rectangle there and imagining paintings within paintings

Martin has for a long time explored the architectural environment around his studio and his paintings reveal a framework and structure that reference architecture. Although clearly abstract, Martin’s paintings are still grounded in the real world. And this architectural structure gives the work a sense of gravity, giving weight to his flights of vibrant color.

The painter’s gifted handling of paint and color and his visceral love for the medium are evidenced in the remarkable variety within a work. Martin has always sought a pictorial truth and his intense engagement with the challenge and problem solving of abstract work is palpable. There is a kind of joy in the result that is communicated to the viewer with an engaging immediacy.