Knox Martin: Homage to Goya features a selection of drawings from Martin’s series, titled Caprichos, which the artist has been evolving for several decades. The works reflect the vibrant and energetic approach for which Martin is known, while also capturing the artist’s formal and conceptual relationship to Goya. The gallery will feature approximately a dozen of the more recent works, produced between 2010-2016. For the series, Martin conjures his own caprices into densely packed and highly exuberant compositions. As has been an important theme across Martin’s practice, the drawings feature the abstracted human body, especially the female nude, with portions of faces and bodies interlocked with other organic forms, lines, and imagery. In instances, the viewer perceives animals, bullets, and rays of sunshine. The “scenes” capture an emotional and physical chaos, inspiring a visceral response and encouraging long looking. In a 1954 review in the New York Times, this sensation—that much of Martin’s work evokes—was described as follows: “Though their designs may appear haphazard...their neo-baroque energy is well under control."