Eddie martinez artist biography
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Eddie Martinez’s (b. ) work joins together painting and drawing, abstraction and representation in non-traditional ways. Imbued with a sense of personal iconography, his practice often combines signature elements, such as bug-eyed humans wearing eclectic headgear, blockheads and Buflies. Energetic and raw, his artworks employ an aggressive use of colour and texture through various combinations of oil, enamel, spray paint, collage and detritus picked up from the studio floor. Martinez’s unconventional practice has received growing institutional support, with five museum solo shows in the last four years, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit and the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, both , and at the Bronx Museum in
Image: Untitled, , oil, acrylic and spray paint on linen , x cm.; 40 x 30 in. Photo: JSP Art Photography
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Darren Almond, Giulia Andreani, Karel Appel, Louise Bonnet, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Sarah Crow
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Eddie Martinez (artist)
American visual artist
Eddie Martinez (born ) is a New York-based artist best known for large-scale paintings that feature bold color, urgent line and brushwork, and graphic shapes and forms.[1][2][3] His style combines painting and drawing, abstraction and representation, and a casual approach to materials with an eclectic iconography of figurative elements.[1][4][5] While contemporary in his choice of materials and subjects, he bridges a wide range of historical influences, including CoBrA, Action painting, neo-expressionism and Philip Guston, and classical conventions of portraiture, still life and allegorical narrative, filtered through the lens of daily experience and popular culture.[6][7][8][9]
Martinez has exhibited internationally, including solo museum shows at the Bronx Museum of the Arts,[10]The Drawing Center,[11]Yuz Mu
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Eddie Martinez: Street Energy and American Abstraction
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By Shira Wolfe
“It’s sort of like a boxing fingerprydnad in here. It’s a very physical process. Maybe I’m a little addicted to that. It’s a real part of my life. It’s a real way for me to work things out outside of just the actual painting.”
Eddie Martinez
Brooklyn-based artist Eddie Martinez has built a body of work over the last decade which merges the tradition of American abstract painting with the buzzing energy of the street. Until 30 March, Artland Collector Auction No. 2 offers a unique opportunity to acquire some of Eddie Martinez’s works during an exclusively online auction, featuring quality artists and selected modern and contemporary artworks from international private art collectors of the Artland community.
Eddie Martinez’s Influences and Iconography
Born in in Groton, Connecticut, Eddie Martinez lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he creates intense large-scale paintings