Brushstrokes from a blessed life
Full disclosure ahead: the artist I’m writing about is my nephew, Martin Honasan, the second son of my oldest brother Greg and his wife Jane.
His first one-man show, “Digging in the Dirt,” at the Yellow Door Gallery at Rockwell, opened Oct. 8.
The show has 22 acrylic and watercolor works in a style that straddles the hyper-realism of his early years—when his family first woke up and realized that, darn, the kid can paint—and the textured abstraction he has recently discovered, just one of the many treasures he has dug for in the dirt of experimentation, and chanced upon, and is now celebrating, along with his many blessings.
And I say, it’s about time, because 35-year-old Martin has something to say, and he says it in a way that, I think, invites you to listen (or rather, look) without being pushy. You do want to look, and linger, and soak in the feelings.



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