Art Brokerage: Jason Martin's artwork traverses multiple formats, pursuing mysteries, often with half-animal people in shiny spandex inspired by 80s workout videos and Hanna Barbera cartoons, based in drawings and mythologies he kept secret for decades. His love of glamorous, paganistic animism surfaces in videos, music, installations, drawings, and performances. Topics include: power structures, species and gender hybridity, witchcraft, rock music, pre-history, analog electronics. Jason Martin is a Brooklyn-based artist and musician. He comes from upstate New York where he made art, music, curated events, and built music recording studios. With the help of a few close collaborators, Jason led multi-media performance troupe Brown Cuts Neighbors which was based out of Schenectady NY’s local Public Access television station, and featuring countless members. Over the years, Jason has exhibited videos internationally under his own name and as a member of groups, collectives, and under various aliases. As a musician, in addition to building an extensive ongoing discography, Jason continues to perform live music and has toured, recorded, and performed with a variety of acts including Devendra Banhart, Dan Deacon, J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Suzanne Thorpe (Mercury Rev, Wounded Knees), The Bunnybrains, His Name Is Alive, Raphe Malik, Lettuce Little, Denim and Diamonds, and many others. Jason recently went back to school and got his MFA at NYU Steinhardt. |
