Patrick Martinez | “Hate and Love (Fighter)” – Release date: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Patrick Martinez’s most recent print “Hate and Love (Fighter)” is a serigraph reproduction of his 2011 mixed media piece. The original was executed in a mixed media on acrylic plex and neon which measures 48″ x 40″. This piece was first shown at Martinez’s solo show at Known Gallery entitled “HUSTLEMANIA” The piece represents the warrior instinct side of humans and the simple yet complex idea of love and hate. This print will be available exclusively online at KnownGalleryStore.com on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 12pm Pacific Standard Time.
“Hate and Love (Fighter)” by Patrick Martinez
Medium: Serigraph
Size: 36″ x 39″
Colors: 7, Hand Pulled
Substrate: Coventry Rag 320 g/sm
Signed and Numbered Edition: 70
Printed by Modern Multiples for Known Gallery
Patrick Martinez’s art reflects the forgotten and the overlooked. Inspired by Los Angeles store front signage, people, and places, his new body of work includes video projections, portraiture on plush blankets, mixed media works, and fabricated neon.
With “Reel Tawlk”, the core concept surrounds the current state of affairs in America, which has led many to rethink what it means to be American. The “Blue Without Green” neon piece draws from the current “Occupy Movement” and speaks towards the sentiment of “melancholy without money”. While, the giant plush blanket portraits are random everyday hard working people that he chose to paint into the limelight. Giving attention to Americans struggling with the American dream and the the climate of today’s job market.
Using his art as a medium for his message, Patrick Martinez utilizes every aspect of his surroundings and fuses them into beauty that is born from the unseen. Speaking words that we are all innately familiar with.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
The opening night of “Reel Tawlk” will take place on Thursday, December 8th, 2011 at Loft in Space. VIP reception is from 7:30pm to 8:30pm with the public opening from 8:30pm to 10:30pm. Show runs till January 7th, 2012. (details below).
Thursday, October 20th 7pm-10pm Mochilla & Hit+Run present “MOCHILLA REMIXED” at the Townhouse Contemporary Art Space in Venice. Some of our favorite visual artists have flipped the classic Mochilla logo, originally designed by Stephen Serrato. On opening night, these logo remixes will be on display alongside iconic photographs by Mochilla founders B+ and Coleman. Each has selected special photo selects from their vast collection for this exhibition that runs from October 20th-November 12th
Participating Mochilla Logo Remix Artists:
Aaron De La Cruz
Augustine Kofie
Brent Rollins
Cody Hudson
Eric Coleman
Ernesto Yerena
Patrick Martinez
Retna
Stephen Serrato
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Where’s the imagination at? Please stop stealing from me. Go to a museum, go see a movie, sketch more, paint, get off your computer and stop googling my images and ripping me off. Stop riding on my efforts and hard work. Thank you….
Below we have Nike.
Very Similar to a sweater I dropped with Levi Maestro earlier this year.
A segment of a four day time-lapse taken from the public opening.
ARTCUBE contains a novel interactive sculpture comprising photographs of the artistic processes and techniques captured by Brandon Shigeta. Stacked into random arrays forming a single cubic massing the sculpture includes hidden signed cards and custom artwork on the surface of the postcards by artists. Perhaps qualifying the exhibit as the heaviest photographic exhibit ever, the sculpture consists of approximately 65,000 postcards of approximately 80 various images to be removed by visitors as souvenirs. The sculpture provides visitors with participatory spatial and tactile experiences in which they remove their favorite images to change the overall form of the mass to reveal new images below. A ceiling mounted camera will record a time-lapse image stream of the changing topography of the top of the sculptural surface over the course of the show.
ARTCUBE is a concentrated agglomeration of images that form narratives of artistic processes, assemblages and details like brush strokes. Those images also reveal their specific, sometimes even illegal, locations in city space and time. Ephemeral at their origin these artistic acts will be further dissolved by ARTCUBE‘s visitors into a flow of the fast paced and energetic cycles of aesthetic metropolitan consumption and production. They will become postcards from the present to a wonderfully fictional future city.
Featured artists: retna, push, barbara kruger, david choe, james jean, shark toof, ryan mcginness, patrick martinez, aaron de la cruz, dalek, revok, eklips, haroshi, kami & sasu, neckface, andrew schoultz, d*face & more….. www.ltdesignweek.com
