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BIO Jason Martin is an artist and musician making work featuring half-animal people in shiny spandex inspired by 80s workout videos and Hanna Barbera cartoons. Topics include: power structures, species and gender hybridity, witchcraft, conflict, and analog electronics. This work is based in animal-people drawings he made for years and kept hidden away til now. Jason is living in Brooklyn NY, recently going back to school completing an MFA at NYU Steinhardt School of Visual Arts. Jason comes from upstate New York, where he made art, music, curated events, and built analog music recording studios. With the help of a few close collaborators, Jason led multi-media performance troupe Brown Cuts Neighbors (1989 – 2002,) which was based out of Schenectady NY’s local Public Access television station, and featuring countless members. This group was technically started in 1980, with Jason's sister Colleen Martin and a bunch of stuffed animals, but that's another story... As a musician, in addition to building an extensive discography, Jason has toured, recorded, and performed with a variety of acts including Devendra Banhart, Dan Deacon, J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Suzanne Thorpe (Mercury Rev, Wounded Knees), The Bunnybrains, His Name Is Alive, Raphe Malik, Lettuce Little, Denim and Diamonds, and many others.