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| moderndallas.net Special “Eye” to Watch June Mattingly // contributing art writer Christopher lee Martin’s “Megacities” at Haley-Henman Gallery through November 27 A collaborative twosome, Haley-Henman specializes in the diversity of emerging regional artists and is known for hosting live conversations between the artists and their followers on a regular basis. Located in the on-the-rise Fort Worth Avenue Development District, it is not far from downtown Dallas (right across the Commerce Street Bridge), Dragon Street Galleries and Dallas Contemporary. |
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| “Megacities” is the title of Dallasite Christopher Lee Martin’s first show at this gallery. Cities of a mega size are metropolises; cities with populations over ten million fit the new nomenclature of megacity. Christopher graduated from Pratt Institute in New York, a mega city right there with a BFA in 2003 and is 32. |
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| Christopher’s biographical profile helps to appreciate the years of focused study and creative drive required to work in lenticular media. Starting in the third grade he was exposed to art in private lessons. In arts magnet middle and upper schools in South Miami he learned the basics in Fine Arts and to express himself visually while inspired by Picasso and Van Gogh. After three years of computer graphics in his senior year he switched to commercial art. Computer as an art tool became a new experience but he continued to paint for the “inner freedom with the tactility of the manual medium.” |
| At Pratt he pushed his work in new directions which gave rise to light refraction photography, digital art and video or media art as a tool for him. Christopher’s conceptual fascination with the perception of the nature of color and its relationship to light is the reason the lenticular printing process’s ability to produce strong interaction between patterns, lights, color and movement on a flat surface three dimensionally fascinates him. By articulating similar patterns and relationships the visual energy of the megacity is captured, and the cosmos comes to earth in windows of an ever-changing landscape in a micro/macro abstract context. Magically aesthetic art and technology work in perfect harmony. To Christopher the positives of “Megacities” are being a part of a dense community for opportunity for personal growth; also multicultural communities established by mass migrations give these urban centers rich diversity. Negatively of course are problems of overpopulation with corresponding pollution, crime and homelessness. |
| “Megacity II” 2010, digital lenticular print, 30 x 40 inches, series of 3 |
| Megacity VI, 2010, digital lenticular print, 30 x 40 inches, |
| Megacity VIII, 2010, digital lenticular print, 30 x 40 inches, |
| Haley-Henman Gallery 2335 Hardwick Street Dallas, TX 75208-2013 214.749.1277 www.haleyhenman.com |
