ARTISTS
Patrick Martinez: All Season Portfolio
Charlie James Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition by gallery artist Patrick Martinez titled All Season Portfolio, opening January 14th from 6-9pm at the gallery in Chinatown. The show will feature new works of painting, drawing, and sculpture by the L.A. based artist.
Patrick Martinez is a son of Los Angeles. His diverse cultural background (Filipino, Mexican, and Native American) provides him a unique lens through which to view and interpret his surroundings. Influenced by the Hip Hop movement, Martinez鈥檚 work leverages the signage, language, and surfaces that underpin visual life in Los Angeles. His work frequently reflects subtexts of power and inequality he observes in culture and in life. All Season Portfolio will be a cross-media platform, including new pieces from Martinez鈥檚 Pee Chee series of paintings and drawings that memorialize victims of police brutality, new neon text sculptures that reference Hip Hop lyrics and LA vernacular signage, and new mixed media stucco paintings, all made in response to this contemporary American moment. In tones ranging from elegiac to defiant, and using visual strategies that eliminate distance between work and viewer, Martinez offers a vigorous, deeply felt response to the clamor and unease of life in Los Angeles, California, USA, 2017.
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Charlie James Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition by gallery artist Patrick Martinez titled All Season Portfolio, opening January 14th from 6-9pm at the gallery in Chinatown. The show will feature new works of painting, drawing, and sculpture by the L.A. based artist.
Patrick Martinez is a son of Los Angeles. His diverse cultural background (Filipino, Mexican, and Native American) provides him a unique lens through which to view and interpret his surroundings. Influenced by the Hip Hop movement, Martinez鈥檚 work leverages the signage, language, and surfaces that underpin visual life in Los Angeles. His work frequently reflects subtexts of power and inequality he observes in culture and in life. All Season Portfolio will be a cross-media platform, including new pieces from Martinez鈥檚 Pee Chee series of paintings and drawings that memorialize victims of police brutality, new neon text sculptures that reference Hip Hop lyrics and LA vernacular signage, and new mixed media stucco paintings, all made in response to this contemporary American moment. In tones ranging from elegiac to defiant, and using visual strategies that eliminate distance between work and viewer, Martinez offers a vigorous, deeply felt response to the clamor and unease of life in Los Angeles, California, USA, 2017.
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