Hollis Taggart is pleased to present Knox Martin: Garden of Time, an exhibition featuring works inspired by nature from across more than five decades of artist Knox Martin’s career. The presentation includes paintings, works on paper, and two of Martin’s rarely displayed mixed-media sculptures, highlighting both the diversity of his practice and the range of ways the 98-year-old artist has engaged with and interpreted his experiences of the natural world. Garden of Time will be on view January 6 - February 5, 2022, at Hollis Taggart’s Chelsea location at 521 W. 26th Street. 

Martin has long been a force in the New York art scene. He studied with Harry Sternberg, Will Barnet, and Morris Kantor at the Art Students League (1946-50), where he later became an influential teacher for generations of artists. His colleagues included Wilhelm de Kooning and Franz Kline—the latter of whom helped Martin secure his first solo exhibition in 1954 with the prestigious Charles Egan Gallery. Over the course of seven decades, Martin has continued to innovate, carving his own path within the artworld through an array of public art commissions—including several mural projects in New York City—and numerous exhibitions across the U.S and abroad. Garden of Time provides a dynamic glimpse at the ways in which nature—whether bouquets of flowers, expansive landscapes, or simply its expressive power—has served as an important point of departure in Martin’s work through time and continues to offer fertile ground for new explorations.