REAL VAIL | 1.24.22

Christopher Martin Gallery to open in Vail

Christopher Martin Gallery will host a Grand Opening for its new location in Vail over President’s Day Weekend, recently issuing the following press release on the event:

Christopher Martin is an artist known for his signature technique of Verre Eglomisé, or reverse glass painting. Though his technique traces back to the 14th century, the self-taught artist’s approach is entirely modern…

CULTURE MAP | 1.19.22

Acclaimed Aspen art gallery blooms with new Upper Kirby studio.

Houstonians who frequently travel to Aspen, Colorado will no doubt be familiar with Christopher Martin. The celebrated painter and gallerist boasts a popular presence in Aspen and Dallas’s Design District with his eponymous Christopher Martin galleries.

An opening exhibit titled “Expanding Horizons” will christen the 2,000-square-foot Houston…

PAPERCITY HOUSTON | 1.1.22

Dallas, Aspen, Vail … and Houston Gallery Row. Christopher Martin Gallery Unveils on Colquitt.

The New Year arrives with upbeat art news: a space on Colquitt Street gets a new tenant — a Gallery with Texas heritage and alpine swagger, cue Christopher Martin Gallery founded by artist Christopher Martin in Dallas in 1995. Flash-forward three decades and Martin is one of the staples in the Dallas Design District with his flagship gallery occupying 10,000 sqft…

ASPEN DAILY NEWS | 12.22.21

Christopher Martin Gallery offers new exhibits

Artist, gallerist and curator Christopher Martin is expanding his horizons this winter season. On the brink of the new year, Martin is representing new artists, opening two more gallery locations and creating fresh work of his own.

Wednesday evening, Christopher Martin Gallery in Aspen will host an opening reception for an exhibition entitled “Expanding Horizons.” The group show, which will run through the end of January, features Martin’s new “Labyrinth” painting series…

ELEVATED LUXURY LIVING & ELEVATED ART MAGAZINE | 01.01.22

Expanding Horizons | The Celebrated American Artist Christopher Martin extends his reach with new gallery locations in Vail and Houston.

Christopher Martin Gallery from Aspen and Dallas is proud to announce its imminent expansion plans in Colorado and Texas. In late December 2021, the gallery is opening its third location in the resort town of Vail. The new gallery in Vail Village, 4,000 square feet in size, is spread over two floors. In early January 2022, the gallery will open its fourth location in Houston, Texas. The new space, 2,000 square feet in size, will be on a gallery row in Colquitt Street …

ELEVATED ART MAGAZINE | FALL 2021

Steve Wrubel | American Rodeo’s New Master Photographer

California raised and Texas based, photographer STEVE WRUBEL has turned his lens towards the power, leather, dirt and sweat of the American Rodeo.  After 25 years in commercial and fine art photography, Wrubel made a move to focus solely on creating art that reflects what he loves – The West…

ELEVATED ART MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2021

MERKABA by Christopher Martin

For 26 years, Christopher Martin's work has continued to evolve as the artist explores new expressions of himself with different bodies of works. Twenty-six years of creating stunning paintings, each unique, each eye-catching, and each a colorful expression. A viewer can easily get lost in deciphering Martin's …

ELEVATED ART MAGAZINE | SPRING 2021

Elevated Lifestyle | Spring 2020

Chris Martin | ORGANIC EXPRESSIONISM

The year was 1993 when Chris Marin found his tiny space in a 1930’s building in Dallas. He chose to show his own paintings curating and carefully controlling the experience that his buyers would have with his works. Now after 26 years…

ELEVATED ART MAGAZINE | SPRING 2021

Ysabel LeMay’s Immersive Natural World

Ysabel LeMay morphs reality and fantasy through her discerning eye and indestructible patience. Her artworks are composed of a constellation of individual photographs that create a sense of wise natural beauty…

ELEVATED ART MAGAZINE | SPRING 2021

Elevated Home & Design | Winter 2021 | Fall 2020

Isabelle Van Zeijl Enigmatic Rebirth

Van Zeijl is invested in her images. By using subjects that intrigue and evoke emotion, she reinvents herself over and over and has created a body of work to illustrate these autobiographical narratives. She is both model, creator, object and subject…

ELEVATED ART MAGAZINE | SPRING 2021

Elevated Home & Design | Winter 2021

Steve Wrubel |American Rodeo’s New Master Photographer

Inspired early on by photographer Richard Avedon’s seminal work – IN THE AMERICAN WEST – Wrubel’s work has always been about separating a subject from its familiar background in order to focus on its details with undisturbed clarity…

HARPER'S BAZAAR COVER | 07.01.19

MODES OF EXPRESSION

The Dutch fine-art photographer Isabelle van Zeijl subverts oppressive ideals of female beauty with her striking self-portraits, in which she depicts herself in the context of paintings by Old Masters. 'The characters in my work embody all that women can be', says van Zeijl. 'Instead of one-dimensional views, they display a multitude of emotions'….

HARPER'S BAZAAR TALKING POINTS | 07.01.19

LAYERS OF MEANING 

 Isabelle van Zeijl's flamboyant photography goes on show at Mayfair Arty Weekend. Plus Francesca Segal's ode to the fearless women who sustain her, and the other wordly genius of Urslula KLe Guin.

ARTE AL LIMITE | Feb 2018

Relationships Between Shapes

Geometric art represents the breakdown and analysis of classical picture-making into chromatic-compositions. This exploration aims to encounter and connect with the simplest shapes and the purest colors, answering an artistic ponderance stemming from natural elements, but evolving to a deconstruction of reality. The resulting compositions are the fruit of a thoroughly researched aesthetic experience that works with tangible shapes and colors to create a visceral effect that activates thespace between the spectator and the artwork…

ELEVATED LUXURY MAGAZINE | Spring 2018

Matt Neuman | One Step Ahead of the Curve

Matt Neuman is a prodigy. Period. I started watching his work evolve from the moment he set foot in my studio in 2007 in Aspen, CO fresh off an impressive undergrad arts degree from Skidmore and a prestigious internship a the world-renowned Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, CO. His resultant series painted from his imagination…

ELEVATED LUXURY LIFE | Fall 2017

 Artist | Chris Martin’s Fearless Exploration through Painting

How to be an accessible nonconformist? Simply mimic the mantras and actions of Chris Martin. If only that were a feasible task for the innocent bystander. Chris Martin decided to march to his own drummer within the art world in 1993. He found a tiny space with good bones in a 1950’s building in Dallas and chose to show his own paintings, curating and carefully controlling the experience his buyers would have with his work. It worked…

ASPEN DAILY NEWS | 10.12.17

Aspenites Mobilize for Large Effort to Aid Houston Pets

After Hurricane Harvey, shelter executive director Seth Sachson, Bland Nesbit, a board member of Friends of the Aspen Animal Shelter, and renowned artist Christopher Martin of Aspen, a longtime supporter of the facility, put their heads together on how to aid pets in the city. “We said at the least, let’s get some supplies [to Houston] and bring back some animals,” Sachson said. Martin called two days later seeking a way to help…

Cavallo de Corsa | Ferrari Owners Charitable Foundation | Volume IV

 The Artist | Christopher Martin

 Jackson Pollock once said, "Every good painter paints what he is.” Christopher Martin embodies this statement. As a painter, philanthropist, and family man fond of the outdoors, the palpable qualities of his personality shine through in his work as clearly as the sun reflecting off snow in winter.