Patrick Martinez

About the artist:

Patrick Martinez maintains a diverse practice that includes mixed media landscape paintings, neon sign pieces, cake paintings, and his Pee Chee series of appropriative works. His landscape paintings are abstractions composed of Los Angeles surface content, such as distressed stucco, spray paint, window security bars, vinyl signage, ceramic tile, neon sign elements, and other recognizable materials. These works serve to evoke place and socio-economic position, and further unearth sites of personal, civic and cultural loss.

Martinez earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at institutions that include, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Brooklyn Museum; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Studio Museum, Harlem; and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. His work resides in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Broad Museum; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Rubell Museum; the Smithsonian National Museum of American History; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection; the Crocker Art Museum; the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis; and the Museum of Latin American Art, among others. 

Artwork in exhibition:

Jay Lynn Gomez and Patrick Martinez, Against the Wall, 2019, Acrylic paint, latex house paint, spray paint, cardboard, ladder, work gloves and stucco on panel, Installation dimensions: approx. 90” x 80 x 24 in., Courtesy of the artists and Charlie James Gallery