“I am committed to creating a body of work that invites others to examine greater perspectives and truer directions”.

Damon Martin was born in Anacortis Washington and moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school on a quest to pursue a life in the ‘arts.’  Damon soon found himself immersed in ‘The Greater Los Angeles’, where he discovered the unique inspiration of artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Raymond Pettibon and Charles Mingus.  Each of these artists celebrated harmonic dissonance and this culmination of exposure became Damon’s early inspiration for his painting career. The artistic style of ‘Cut up’ and ‘neo abstract’ images collided in Martin’s first showings. Buyers from around the LA Southland united in a sold out debut. Early success in the art world provided greater opportunities for Damon to pursue ‘the arts’ in various forms.  As a student of jazz composition, theatrical arts and fine arts, Martin continued to achieve substantial success in these various expressions. Martin has emerged onto the Urban Street Art scene with a large scale, multi- city mural project entitled RAZZLE DAZZLE.  Inspired by the height of the Art Deco and Jazz Era, RAZZLE DAZZLE decommissions a WWI and WWII camouflage pattern painted on warships to mask their true form and direction. Like Jazz itself, the intonation and direction of the murals lines are often dramatic in nature.Gen Art and smart are proud to introduce Gen Art Detour presented by smart, to make its debut at the SCOPE art fair in Miami, featuring Damon Martin as one of the chosen emerging artists to custom wrap a smart car with their design.