NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Haller Gallery presents Lloyd Martin: Strata an exhibition of new paintings by the American painter known for rhythmically constructed abstract work. The exhibition opens March 14th and runs through April 20th.

Meredith Mendelsohn in ARTnews writes: “Martin manages to communicate nostalgia for the shock and pop of radical new creative expression…” There is an intensely rhythmic, almost musical quality to Lloyd Martin’s painting, a kind of pulsing beat. There is also a distinctly architectural element, an inherent framework that grounds the structure and holds together disparate elements. In this series Martin continues his exploration of the transformative nature of time and use - the decay as well as revitalization of the urban landscape around his studio. This atmosphere inspires Martin in the creation of this vibrant new work.

A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Martin has been honored with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Painting. He has twice been awarded the Fellowship in Drawing, revealing his heightened awareness of line and form. That skill is evident in his series of prints for Landfall Press acquired by The Cleveland Museum of Art.

In the catalogue essay for a Martin exhibition in Taiwan, Wang Pin-Hua writes: “with these frame-like lines, Martin creates a seemingly wider structure or multi-layered space by dividing and reconstructing the images, making the paintings extend far beyond the boundaries of the pictures.”

“Martin takes on the vigor and grit of modern city life. …the surface is gridlike but roughed up, as if the toughness of urban existence had made its way into the painting.” writes critic Jonathan Goodman. And Stephen Bennett Phillips, curator of the Federal Reserve Collection, writes that Martin’s paintings yield “a majestic grandeur with a human dimension and a universal appeal.”