ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RAINBOW, America Martin: SOLO SHOW, 2026
Apr 17 – May 23, 2026
JoAnne Artman Gallery is delighted to announce Continuum, a captivating solo exhibition featuring new and selected works by renowned Colombian-American artist America Martin. Through her bold, expressive style and mastery of form, Martin invites viewers into an ever-evolving exploration of identity, culture, and the human experience.
FIRST show of the year! An evening dedicated to America Martin’s newest work, opening January 2 from 6–9 PM at Gallery MAR. Join us for an immersive night of art, community, and color as we gather to experience these joyful works in person.
America Martin: Solo Show
November 1-30, 2025
Opening reception on Saturday, November 1 from 6 to 8pm
America Martin is inspired by form and figure as depicted by the Modernists of the early 20th century. A concentration on line using flat color reduces her subjects to their simplest shapes, highlighting the beauty and strength of a moment. The moments in this show focus on relationships: between that of mother and child, the embrace of a lover, or the bond among friends.
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July 28, 2025
BRIAN REGO / AMERICA MARTIN / MEGAN MAGILL
CARVER HILL GALLERY
July 17 2025 - August 17 2025
Please join us for the Third Thursday in July for three new shows of work by Brian Rego, Megan Magill and America Martin. Rego and Magill are new to the gallery, and we are happy to show long time gallery artist America Martin with them. The show will open on July 17th from 5 - 7 pm with all of the artists in attendance. Refreshments will be served. Part of the street will be closed off for music, a food truck, children's activities and socializing. The show runs through August 17th. The gallery is open daily.
JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present SEEING AMERICA, a solo exhibition from America Martin, June 7 – August 14, 2025
A large painting of boxers — commissioned from the California artist AMERICA MARTIN — transitions from black to olive green, one of a small number of “almost neutral” colors Charette was comfortable using in the house.
Exhibition at J. Willott Gallery
America Martin : New Works
“Picnic in the Desert”
January 30th - February 30th 2025
Gallery MAR is proud to present Blue Bells and Snowdrops, a new exhibition by celebrated artist America Martin. Known for her bold use of color and dynamic, figurative work, Martin’s latest collection explores the beauty and simplicity of nature through vibrant depictions of flora and fauna.
America Martin Solo Show at Wally Workman Gallery 2024
November 2-December 1, 2024
Of Columbian-American heritage, America is renowned for her robust works using form and figure. Inspired by mid-century masters deconstructing the figure, she uses concentrated line and flat color to create colossal, vibrant subjects appearing to barely be contained by the canvas. There is a joy and exuberance in their expression, "a universal truth" in their gesture. She moves instinctively across her canvases and fine papers with a sure brush. America's titles are a poetry unto themselves, and share her lovely fables of hope and humanity. She has devised a unique style of new modernity while incorporating lessons from indigenous cultures- her own Columbian roots an important component. Represented across the country and internationally collected, Martin continues to impress audiences with her exciting work.
“My favorite things find their way into the art I make, through color, harmony and composition. The cheerful sun in the sky. The flowers and vines that I grow. The books I read, places to be traveled, the way dogs bark and children laugh. The joy that I find in the people I know and the people I haven’t met yet. I am an artist; my name is America Martin.”
JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS, OH MY!, a solo exhibition of new works by America Martin.
"Outdoors 'til Dusk" is a reflection of time spent in Maine with family and friends. The show will feature 12 brand new oil paintings, 16 framed works on paper, and 4 sculptures.
Lav + Co
Interior Design Studio
Lav + Co. is a residential architectural design team based in Austin, TX and Greenwich, CT by @lorenzaavila
LET THERE BE ART: America Martin featured in the home aided by Wally Workman Gallery
America Martin featured in LUXE Interiors + Design magazine, Issue 85, MAY/JUNE 2024
For clients involved in art, it's no surprise their pied-a-terre has a gallery-like feel. In each room, the wall decor helps to round out the color scheme, while adding dimension and movement.
…pattern play…
…beautiful story board @atlantahomesmag for our reflective retreat at the 2023 @atlantaholidayhome featuring visual and tactile layers that sooth the soul. We loved watching people enjoy this quiet moment, reaching out to touch the soft hand of fabrics and faux fur in contrast to the warm texture of the wood veneer wallpaper, allowing the layers of sensory contrast speak to their heart. It’s what we love to do!!!
JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present COLORITO, an exhibition of new works by America Martin. A term usually applied to 16th-century Venetian painting where color is employed in a dominant manner, colorito, or ‘coloring’ was deemed fundamental to conceiving painted images charged with the look of life. America Martin’s modern interpretation includes not only judicious color application, but the vitality and vigor of the world around her as she continues her unmistakable aesthetic sensibility.
All the Right Ingredients
In the historic art colony of Laguna Beach, California, designer Raili Clasen brought a midcentury exuberance to a contemporary beach house’s modern vibe. The result is a colorful free spirit worthy of its pedigree
BY PAIGE PORTER FISCHER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARYN MILLET
A painting by Colombian-American artist America Martin pulls in shades of pink and leads the way to the hall. Featuring an 18-foot ceiling with skylights, Hunt Slonem’s whimsical butterflies and a Tibetan tiger rug serve as a gallery-like entrance to the surrounding bedrooms. “The art is amazing,” gushes Johnson. —Lori Johnston
America Martin’s painting Cloud Woman hangs at the Juniper Austin restaurant in Austin Texas. The space was designed by Cravotta Interiors.
SUNSET PARK - A Santa Monica bungalow designed by Betsy Burnham. A custom sectional, sourced through Cisco Home, an area rug from International Flooring and the 1573 chair from Lee Industries covered in Colefax & Fowler’s Boxwood Union play supporting roles in the family room, which is dominated by a painting by America Martin, via Joanne Artman Gallery. Photography by Laura Hull.
If placing a painting or print next to a window, notice the view. Are there any shapes or colors that are reflected in the piece? And last but not least, soften any sharp, rectangular edges in a room with rounded shapes in your chosen artworks.
A historic Wolf Pen Branch home designed by AMID, Allison McComb's interior design firm in Louisville, Kentucky
In the living room, the berry tones continue with dusty pink Zak+Fox pillows, a maroon wooden peg sculpture by Bradley Duncan, a contemporary America Martin painting, and a Desiron midcentury-style console with spray-painted burgundy doors. The Røros Tweed throw and sculptural Tom Dixon chair upholstered in a geometric Kelly Wearstler fabric both feature multiple shades of red.
For Martin, every piece she has created is an extension of herself: replete with biographical anecdotes and self-reflection.
“I always remember a piece instantaneously. To me, [my older work] looks just like my own face. It seems similar, but I know comparatively, it looks different. Hopefully there is always a through-line of my thumb print.”
Together, the works in RETRO reveal Martin’s inner landscape- memory, perception, experience- all asserted with an intensely spirited grace.
“On Saturday, December 3rd, Wally Workman Gallery will open their 10th solo show with renowned Los Angeles-based painter America Martin. The artist is inspired by form and figure as depicted by the Impressionists and Modernists of the early 20th century. A concentration on line and flat color reduces her subjects to their simplest forms and yet challenges our ideas of perception. Her confidence in mark making and gesture is clearly that of a dedicated and prolific artist. Represented across the country and internationally collected, Martin continues to impress audiences with her exciting work.
AD- “Richter designed the library around a vibrant painting by artist America Martin. “When deciding how to incorporate a Colombian American artist, I designed a cocoon of black millwork that offset the bright colors and created a warm place to watch movies in the evening,” she says. “If the apartment is like going to Paris, this is St. Barths—a little excursion.”
Through radical forms and an unmistakable aesthetic sensibility, Martin experiments with line weight and function as a tool for two dimensional representation of three dimensionality. Creating a new balance between solidity, mass, and suggestion, thick lines are filled with the bubbling energy of thin, long scrapes throughout their length – adding both intensity and depth.
Boy In Blue, oil and acrylic painting hanging in collectors home courtesy of TEW Galleries.
Boy In Blue | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 72” X 60” in.
America Martin created this painting for the Music Academy’s 75th Anniversary that was made into a poster that you could purchase to be placed into a raffle to win the original painting.
The colorful masterpiece by America Martin depicts three men playing music. It was one of three paintings done by the artist for Todd to choose from
Martin’s desire to capture the essence of humanity and nature is central to her engaging work. To underscore how important it is, she refers to herself as a painting anthropologist. Nevertheless, she deals with the same problems that have obsessed painters throughout time—arresting movement, exploring the expressive potential of human form, and arranging bodies in space in novel ways.
America Martin’s work will inspire, provoke, engage and mesmerize. With visual perceptions always changing, peek behind the stories told and you’re sure to find the right artistic expression
At the other end of the home, where the guest room is located, Power created a passageway that acts as a hall and, more importantly, a gallery space. Here, original Georgia O’Keefe drawings rest side-by-side with a Tinka Tarver sculpture installation. The showpiece of the guest bath is a life-sized abstract nude by America Martin.
As one of Los Angeles’ most historic, yet progressive properties, Hotel Figueroa has been a champion for women in the art and creative fields for nearly a century. The hotel was advertised as “an ideal stopping place for ladies unattended,” and served as a meeting place for practically every woman's club in Los Angeles.
Straight from the VDG archives, this expertly crafted living space showcases significant artwork.
When it comes to selecting art for your interior, we as designers have wildly different approaches. Some pick one work from a clients’ collection and use it as a jumping off point for the entire project. Others will begin with the design, layering the room with patterns and textures before even envisioning how artwork will be integrated. However they begin, the one space they can always count on as a showcase of the more intriguing work is the living room.
Wally Workman Gallery presents America Martin: "Under the Sky”, the ninth show with renowned Los Angeles-based painter America Martin. Martin is inspired by form and figure as depicted by the Impressionists and Modernists of the early 20th century.
These artists’ works will inspire, provoke, engage and mesmerize. With visual perceptions always changing, peek behind the stories told and you’re sure to find the right artistic expression.
This show is an amalgam of America's Colombian roots and the inspiration she finds in her reading and her travels. She pulls from the stylistic lessons of the classics and its derivations in indigenous subject matter, while redefining what it is to combine abstract and indigenous motifs.
INTERIOR DESIGN BY MEG LONERGAN
A vintage chaise in the master bedroom is from Rail & Stile, styled with custom Fabricut-covered pillows. A drawling by America Martin hangs above the vintage console.
When you have an open floor plan, large-scale artwork like this one by America Martin can serve as an important focal point or a visual destination to define a space. While visual destinations are important, successful interiors should feel harmonious and have a natural flow from room to room. We like to create continuity by repeating materials and shapes throughout the home. Here, the curved shape of the metal on the chandelier in the dining room is repeated in the ceiling fixtures leading down the hallway.
A massive, commissioned mural from painter America Martin, titled “James’ Flowers,” hangs in the main dining room.
America Martin featured on the cover of interior designer Melanie Turner’s first book
Inviting Interiors: A Fresh Take on Beautiful Rooms Hardcover – March 2, 2021
by Melanie Turner (Author), Mali Azima (Photographer)
The first book from Atlanta interior designer Melanie Turner, whose pretty work has a modern edge.
Enthusiastic collectors, the Oudts own an array of ceramics (including pieces by Brenda Holzke and Simone Bodmer-Turner), paintings by artists such as José-María Cundin and America Martin, and a few sculptures, notably John Riepenhoff’s easel with human legs that playfully greets visitors in the entry. They even installed a video work by Gregory Scott that was purchased in New Orleans at the Arthur Roger Gallery in the dining room’s bar, where walnut paneling and cabinetry frames an eye-catching backsplash of glossy black Moroccan tile.
Emphasizing narration and the tales that emerge through gesture and contour, America Martin’s compositions always conjure a captivating story.
America Martin : Timeless NOVEMBER 2020 at the J. Willott Gallery
One of the room’s most striking pieces is a painting by America Martin; placed against windows, a moss backing gives it an organic feel when viewed from the outside. The open, inviting atmosphere extends to the adjoining breakfast room, which offers a sophisticated spot to dine amid contemporary furniture and art. Well-suited for leisure and hospitality, the two rooms are “easy on the eyes,” says Turner. –Jennifer Boles
America’s embrace of the influence of art history acknowledges a wide range of artistic influence, including that of Matisse, Picasso, Leger and Chagall, but in emotional reach and painterly vocabulary are very much rooted in contemporary life. One cannot help but recognize the way she rapidly sets herself apart from her peers and propels beauty, vulnerability, refinement and poetry into our world with astonishing precision and force.
Taking inspiration from Mid-Century Modernist masters, America’s distinctive style is underscored by the use of boldly brushed lines and punctuated bursts of color to imply tone and mood. She treats her subjects with an obvious reverence, and in a manner that captures their individuality and their dignity.
above: The dining room becomes an intimate cove beside the grandeur of the entry’s stairway. Yet it gathers its own gravitas from the limestone-tiled wall that flows from the entry. The homeowner’s equestrian passion is seen in a bronze equine sculpture set between Holly Hunt’s bronze “Bell Pepper” lamps. Women on Beach by artist America Martin provides an artistic focal point
JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present, Connecting the Dots, an exhibition featuring new works by America Martin. Referencing Paul Klee’s statement that, “A line is a dot that went for a walk,” the title serves as a fitting descriptor of Martin’s adept and exuberant use of line. Employing smooth, bold curves as well as hard, geometric strokes, she adheres to the most fundamental aspect of drawing - the line - to tell a story, connecting compositional elements and personal narratives throughout her practice.
We look back at excerpts from our conversations that highlight Martin’s studio practice, process, and the continuing inspiration for her most recent body of work.
“The idea of being present and really looking at a vista - a tree, a rock even, and seeing it change throughout a day was amazing,” she said about her plein air work around Chama last July.
It’s these sort of everyday Genre scenes that make up most of Martin’s oeuvre and justify her self-given title of “painting anthropologist,” but she has a way of romanticizing the quotidian in a way that make these moments feel monumental. While men and still life images certainly find their fair share of the limelight in her work, many of her larger-than-life paintings feature another form found throughout art history – the nude female figure. “I’m doing what art has been doing forever,” Martin says with satisfaction, “though I’m able to have more real estate – when I say “real estate,” I mean, scope of joy and confidence in the way that I portray women – because I am a woman.”
JA: Do your paintings have autobiographical elements to the narrative? Is this a reason for reoccurring themes throughout your body of work?
MARTIN: Everything is autobiographical. We are living biographies. Artists are just outside the lines about it. There are reoccurring themes, images and subject matters that I return to. These repeating images are at this point still partially responsible for the pleasure, comfort and joy I find when making a new work. For example, say when I clean the house as a rule I listen to very loud Beethoven or Billy Joel. When I paint a women resting in nature I put a small snail or a bird near her, because these are the things that draw my attention and make a moment tender. These themes repeat themselves and tend to go on with a series, until I begin finding interest in a new notion.
Im so thrilled to have been able to work with you these last 10 years JoAnne. My they have gone by fast. But my dear JoAnne, Tayler and Erin, your support and belief through this particular junction of great action and change, will always be very poignant and special to me. It is fun to see new and old work side by side. For myself, I do not have favorite works. My favorite piece in the groovy hum that I will be looking for during the process of painting or sculpting the piece I haven’t made yet. But when I look at my older work, I remember doing each piece as if it was yesterday. Although I no longer work in the same way that I did then. It is interesting to see the choices, the ways of controlling space, line and color the way I did then, next to what I do now. What a great way to start off the year. Yip Yip!
“J. Willott Gallery hosted an extremely successful and well-attended America Martin exhibition Nov. 24. A Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles, Martin has expanded her well known painting and sculpture works to include new surprises in 3-dimensional art. As basis for her enigmatic works, America sites universal truth as inspiration for creating derivations in indigenous subject matter via the human form.
Mark Williams and Niki Papadopoulos of Mark Williams Design Associates transformed the entryway and main floor into a sophisticated space filled with spectacular, oversized art, like brilliant paintings by America Martin.
The exhibition showcases the fearless, bold use of line and color through the compositions of the artist with a profound sense of form and space. The work of America Martin with these figurative paintings transcends cultural aesthetics as it emerges through the internalized gender aesthetics.
A recent trip to the Art New York art fair during Frieze week culminated in a meeting with gallery director JoAnne Artman of JoAnne Artman Gallery. Originally based on the west coast, Ms. Artman has recently opened a space in Chelsea. We were fortunate to be given the chance to collaborate with the Frames and Stretchers team on a project for her.
Colombian-American artist America Martin continues her exploration of humanist themes through figurative abstraction and powerful, raw elements of color and line. Scenes of everyday life that link the body to the continuity of nature permeate her work, portrayed through both the human form as well as the classic still life.
Bursting with life, vigorous in line, form and color, America Martin’s work showcases her unique and humanist approach to portraying the natural world as well as the human form. Constantly re-defining her artistic practice and the possibilities of expression, Martin’s work is both visionary and diverse in its approach. Martin works in a diversity of mediums including painting, mixed media on cotton rag paper, and sculpture. Beyond her affinity for modernism and iconic forms, Martin’s work is informed by her intensive approach to material and process. Rooted in art historical lexicon, Martin’s work is narrative of the various cultural, anthropological as well as sociocultural frameworks inherent in her subject matter.
For over five decades, Art in Embassies (AIE) has played a leading role in U.S. public diplomacy through a focused mission of vital cross-cultural dialogue and understanding through the visual arts and dynamic artist exchange.
A trip to AMERICA MARTIN’s expansive live/work space reveals a prolific young artist’s flourishing body of work.
203 Fine Art presents its fourth solo exhibition of America Martin's work which evokes classical and indigenous forms reminiscent of the Impressionists and Modernists of the early 20th century.
“In life we are given a blank canvas of our own. The markings, the strokes, the hues vary depending on each of us. Our truth that lives idly within is freed when we give it a place to find liberation.”
America Martin’s new show explores the themes and subjects dear to the artist’s heart including reclining female nudes and musicians at work.
Her hometown of Los Angeles, and the vibrant diversity of its population, moves her. When about town, she takes mental snapshots of the people she sees all around her, and then transfers the sights stored in her head onto paper and canvas.
America Martin lives and breathes art. Painter, sculptor, photographer, printmaker and accomplished writer, when she is not making art, she reads about it and — with infectious joy-talks about it. It all started with a discarded book about Vincent Van Gogh, tossed among the wire hangers and outgrown roller skates at a neighborhood garage sale. With only a quarter to spend the teen settled on the book and fell in love.
Her work features broad lines and bright colors on canvas and has been shown around, Her work features broad lines and bright colors on canvas and has been shown around the country in California, Texas, Maine, among others.
I'm a huge Picasso fan and Martin's work is very closely aligned with his - although Martin seems to have a kinder gaze when it comes to her subject. Her work also invokes the art of Matisse and Fernand Léger.
It’s this vision of the Greek goddess that has inspired L.A.-based artist America Martin, in a rich new series paintings picturing valiant women. “This new series is an ode to spring, to Persephone, when she emerges from the shadows of the underworld, and with her grace makes the flowers bloom, the fruit grow and the winter fade away,”
Not only does this endearing and talented woman paint, she also creates intricate sculptors as well.
MUSEUM.org Interview with AMERICA MARTIN
If you live in this town, you've probably heard about the rising-star artist America Martin.