Martin Geller is a multiple New York Emmy Award–winning artist whose career spans more than five decades across graphic design, broadcast design, and fine art. His practice is grounded in sustained engagement with the visual languages of 20th-century art and design, explored through original, contemporary compositions rather than historical reproduction.
Across multiple bodies of work, Geller examines how movements such as Bauhaus, Cubism, Modernism, and Minimalism articulated structure, space, typography, and color as systems rather than styles. These principles inform his approach to poster-based works and related compositions, which function as independent artworks while often forming coherent bodies when viewed collectively.
The Bauhaus Poster Series focuses on a single historical movement, exploring Bauhaus principles of geometry, typographic order, and constructed space through sustained visual inquiry. Titles referencing cities and years function as conceptual frameworks rather than documentation of actual exhibitions.
The 20th-Century Art Genres works broaden this inquiry, engaging multiple movements across the century while maintaining a consistent authorial approach. Together, these exhibitions reflect an ongoing investigation into how modern visual systems continue to inform contemporary image-making.
The Sculptures represent a natural extension of Geller's lifelong exploration of form. Drawing inspiration from modernist sculptors including Henry Moore, Constantin Brâncuși, and Isamu Noguchi, these conceptual works translate his interest in composition, abstraction, and visual rhythm into three dimensions.
Geller’s clients have included The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, NBC, ABC, CBS, Paramount Television, VH-1, leading national magazines, major record labels, and distinguished book publishers, including the “Big Five.” His work also appears in the A24 feature film Dream Scenario (2023), starring Nicolas Cage, for which he received an end-credit acknowledgment.
