"Caprichos"

In 1955, Willem de Kooning sent Meyer Schapiro to Knox Martin’s studio to see Concert in the Park.  Martin remembers, that an enthusiastic Schapiro told him things he thought only other painters knew.  Schapiro understood, that the artist ’s latest canvas complemented his more metaphorical work  - shown at the Charles Egan Gallery in the 1950’s  - and left with the friendly warning of  "don’t neglect this side."  This side is the thousands of drawings Knox Martin has done over the years, and they add up to Caprichos.  In Caprichos, Knox Martin creates a new kind of space.  

- Janos Gat

When I was a child, by some odd roll of the dice???, we moved across the street from the Hispanic Museum at 155th Street in NYC where I spent a lot of time.  For years, there were on the gallery walls etchings and drawings by Goya, that I copied in my notebooks and much like a fish what takes for granted water that it lives in.

Sixty seven years in water have resulted in Caprichos.

- Knox Martin