Alfred Martinez “Thinking Occurrences”

Noho Gallery / M55

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The show will feature a series of collages inspired by the artist’s travels through Europe and the United States, including his recent extended stay in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, time spent as a pilgrim hiking the medieval trails of Southern France, and eight days of sailing New York’s Long Island Sound.

Martinez’s most recent works are comprised of draping curtains made of vinyl canvas, adorned with cutouts of photographic images carefully placed atop colorfully painted sections. Each curtain is embedded with digital frames that display slideshows of digital imagery that can be seen through cut holes on the vinyl surface. The visual effect is intensified by various
sounds of music emitted each piece. “Thinking Occurrences” is filled with vibrant, subjective ideas based on the Martinez’s experiences through his travels.

The “Body Coffin” is made from a once-functional 7-foot tall wicker casket, has been transformed by color, and electric light, and nearly comes alive as it plays the music of late rhythm and blues artist Ray Charles. The Body Coffin is in combination with the hanging collages are in keeping with Martinez’s continued interest of using consumer materials to make new art forms.

Alfred Martinez is a New York artist who works from his studio in Chinatown. He first garnered public attention through his exhibit at the 112 Greene Street Gallery in Soho in 1977. At the 112 Greene Workshop he initialed the ideas of painting on the surface of utilitarian objects. In 1981, at the O.K. Harris Gallery he exhibited a set of 28-foot multi-colored painted venetian blinds in the gallery windows. His 1986 drawing series of utilitarian guns produced a print , titled “Comfort…in the Streets?” which was included in the Whitney Museum’s “I, YOU, WE” exhibition last summer.

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Schedule

from March 04, 2014 to March 29, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-03-06 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Alfred Martinez

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