Chris Martin will speak at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 in Epperson Auditorium as part of the College's "Current Perspectives" lecture series.
Marinis an abstract painter who was born in 1954 in Washington, D.C. He lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1992 and attended Yale University from 1972 to 1975. He has exhibited work in solo shows in New York, Boston and Los Angeles.
Recent group shows have included "Abstract America" at the Saatchi Gallery in London, "Painting as Fact -- Fact as Fiction" at de Pury & Luxembourg in Zurich, Switzerland, and "The Painted World" at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. Martin received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in 1990 and 1993. He also has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Pollack-Krasner Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.