Martin Rollins
WHEELHOUSE ART PRESENTS A NEW FAMILIAR, NEW WORK BY MARTIN ROLLINS. ON VIEW NOVEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 21, 2024
Martin Rollins is a native of Louisville, who received his BFA from the Louisville School of Art in 1981, and his MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 1987. The major focus of his collegiate fine artwork focused on painting, drawing and fiber media.
As a participant in the Kentucky Arts Council, he has worked with educators and students as an Artist in Residence in schools across the state of Kentucky. In his work as a Art Specialist, Rollins has taught in the Jefferson County Public Schools and Walden School in Louisville. In his work with the Kentucky Center’s education programs, he has served as a visual arts faculty for the Kentucky Institute for the Arts in Education and the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts.
Martin Rollins’ artwork uses oil pastels and related media, and focuses primarily on urban and suburban cityscapes and landscapes. The oil pastel medium is a somewhat temperamental medium, and Rollins’ work is noted for its expressive handling of the material and the artist’s mark-making.
Rollins employs the medium’s saturated color and range of surface qualities on images of domestic architecture, parks, and open vistas of streets and roads.
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