The Selection Committee Radio Show with Cameron Martin, 5/7/23

I first encountered Cameron Martin’s work almost 20 years ago. At the time, he was making subtle, elegant, paintings of natural formations, from tightly-cropped clusters of boulders sloping into the sea to stark Fuji-style depictions of a mountain (Mount Rainier?) rendered in dark bruise-purples. From there his work has developed into a focused exploration of pure abstraction drawing upon histories of art and design, as well as the visual background noise that surrounds us in our printed, built, and digital environments.

Martin talks about growing up in Seattle in the 80’s and early 90’s during the efflorescence of the alt-rock and nascent grunge scenes. It was probably impossible to grow up in that kind of environment and not start your own bands, and fortunately for us Cameron shares some music he made when he was young (United Shach Corporation) and some music made with a group of artists and friends with whom he continues to play (RAS) +