The Christopher Cutts Gallery is pleased to present a redux of “Paintings and Objects,” the gallery’s first Ron Martin exhibition. This is our twentieth solo exhibition of Martin’s work in the thirty years that he has been represented by the CCG.

Originally shown in 1992, the exhibition will include the Black Serrated Paintings (1992), a coloured example of Bottled and Jarred (1991), and Martin’s first voice-box I am here today… (1992). This body of work marks an important expansion in Martin’s practice, materially and epistemologically.

“[The purpose of art is] to open the subject of the viewer to the freedom to make critical distinctions as a medium of knowledge and insight.

It is important to understand that most of the objects I have made revolve around the issues of painting. Until recently, painting has been a surface – a medium – upon which viewers project their souls. Delacroix believed that was the principal interest of painting. It stands to reason that if we can project our soul onto material, we can project our soul onto viewers, a medium of knowledge and insight, through their comprehension of the medium of statement.”

– Ron Martin, “A new work of art” in “Two essays on art and knowledge.”