A horse with no name
March 8, 2006- April 8, 2006
531 W 25th St
Eddie Martinez’s drawings and paintings are assemblages of reoccurring characters, objects, and motifs that loosely recreate everyday life into chaotic and exhilarating events. Interiors may feature peaked, colorfully shingled roofs, while landscapes are littered with potted plants and bowls of fruit. Those objects may also appear in more straightforward still life paintings that pulsate with the energy of modern masters of the genre, such as Marsden Hartley. Though his style is unabashedly untrained, a wide range of comparisons from Picasso to comics to folk art assert themselves.
Martinez’s practice of constant drawing, an obsessive recording of life, provides his oeuvre’s foundation, one characterized by a vibrancy and energy that can barely be contained. The paintings substantiate his visions in expanded scale and palette. For all, his process is instinctual, idiosyncratic, and self-assured, professing an outlook that is at turns genuine, optimistic, and hilarious.
A Horse With No Name is the artist’s New York solo debut. His work can also be seen in Fine Line at the Adam Baumgold Gallery through March 11th. Other recent projects include a solo effort at Galleri Loyal in Stockholm and curating Don’t Abandon the Ship at Allston Skirt Gallery.
Reviews of A horse with no name
Art in America October 1, 2006 | | David Coggins | | "Eddie Martinez's promising solo debut is full of joyous work that creates its own entrancing world. His paintings and drawings feature a recurring cast of men in baseball hats, gliding parrots and coiled snakes who all stare at us with striking, overlarge eyes. They populate incongruous landscapes full of vivid pattern and color, unified by the visceral pleasure Martinez takes in their invention..." |
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