ARTIST

America Martin is a fine artist based in Los Angeles. She studied with

Vernon Wilson, professor of painting and drawing at Art Center School of Design, and was a scholarship student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA.

America Martin is a traveler between mediums. Her paintings and drawings are emphatic expressions of playful references to a number of the major schools of the twentieth century, as well as to enduring indigenous art forms, America’s favorite landscape is the landscape of the human form. Her work is distinguished by a command of line and color and is firmly grounded in the classics.

She is currently working on a large series of peopled urban landscapes

painted in oil and ink on paper and canvas. About her work, Martin says, “It is true. The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. She cannot be idle. It is only duty and discipline that make art. The artist is gluttonous, constantly devouring life in order to translate all that she sees, smells, lives or breathes into her own language. Why, and for what? For the blistering personal joy that comes when one is doing something of and about truth.” There is no choosing this life. An artist paints because she must.