Jason Martin valuation
Jersey-born painter of single, combed sweeps of thick oil or gel across metal and Plexiglas, shown in Sensation in 1997.
Jason Martin was born in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, in 1970, and graduated from Goldsmiths in 1993, a contemporary there of the Young British Artists.
What a work by Jason Martin is worth
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Bio
Jason Martin was born in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, in 1970, and graduated from Goldsmiths in 1993, a contemporary there of the Young British Artists. While still a student he began dragging thick oil paint or acrylic gel across grounds of aluminium, steel or Plexiglas with a comb-like tool of his own making, so that one movement leaves a field of ridges and furrows, a close-up of a single brushstroke that also reads as landscape. He has refined the method ever since, from thin glazes through which the metal shines to deep, sculptural reliefs. He was included in Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy in 1997 and had his New York debut at the Robert Miller Gallery the following year. He lives and works in London and Portugal.
The paintings are monochrome and depend on their surface, so dents in the metal, scratches on Plexiglas and damage to the raised ridges of paint all affect value; they should be hung, lit and moved with care, and should not be cleaned with solvents. The date and the support identify a work, and a provenance through the Saatchi collection, Lisson Gallery or Thaddaeus Ropac adds to it.
Jersey, Goldsmiths and Sensation
He was in Monochrome at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2004, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice gave him a solo exhibition in 2009.
SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, in Germany, held a retrospective of the previous two decades of his work in 2017.
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