Martine Kasmin

Martine Kasmin has been an artist for as long as she can remember. From an early age she knew that making art was the key to her happiness.

Martine Kasmin's career

She studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York City on a full tuition merit scholarship. While at SVA she immediately felt an affinity with Abstract Expressionism and began to paint intuitively, letting her emotions and subconscious thoughts guide her work.

Martine's work has been chosen for numerous juried shows in Northern New Jersey and the Hudson Valley, New York. She was recently selected for an installation at The Art House in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her work will be featured this fall in Art Seen Magazine.

Her artistic approach

Martine uses her memories and emotional responses to being a mother, a friend, and a nature lover to create exciting shapes, color relationships and linear qualities that react and respond beautifully and powerfully to each other. Her paintings invite the viewer to spend time with them to decipher and unravel the forms that they see. She is passionate about bringing her images to their fruition through a magical alchemy that occurs when painting.

Martine's artwork has a wide range of influences. From El Greco’s powerful skies to DeKooning’s beautiful fleshy abstractions. She is also drawn to Cecily Brown's stunning use of light and Rita Ackerman's use of line.

She currently lives and maintains a studio in Northern New Jersey.