Daniel Joseph Martinez
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Daniel joseph martinez. Committee on prints and illustrated books fund. Get this from a library. A life of disobedience. For the exhibition martinez presents a series of four narratives throughout both exhibition spaces of the gallery.
26 15 16 x 20 15 16 68 5 x 53 2 cm. Or the death of my pet monkey. Martinez s work utilizes a conceptual operation takes the form of photography painting installation robotics performance and public interventions that delve into topics of race and sociopolitical boundaries present within american society. Daniel joseph martinez los angeles.
Daniel joseph martinez born 1957 is a los angeles based contemporary artist. Daniel joseph martinez a story for tomorrow in 4 chapters dostoevsky loved the hunchback of notre dame muhammad ali and dandelions lick my hunch 2010 2012 archival pigment print with uv finishing coating 74 x 60 in 188 0 x 152 4 cm edition of 3 2 ap. I ve always embraced a means to open debates as part of a method to allow. 27 15 16 x 21 15 16 71 x 55 8 cm.
Martinez grew up in lennox california a working class area of los angeles county near los angeles international airport. Or the death of my pet monkey 2004. Colby poster los angeles. Michael brenson for more than 30 years los angeles born artist daniel joseph martinez has been honing his politically inflected practice which critic jeffrey kastner has characterized as unapologetically.
Learn about the artist and see available works for sale. Divine violence functions in daniel joseph martinez s words as a typology of every organization in the world that uses violence or aggression to fulfill its political ideology the installation is comprised of 125 panels each of which bears the name of a political organization in black lettering on a wooden ground painted with automotive gold flake. In the age of apocalyptic despair and utopian hope. From the california institute of the arts in 1979.
Using text image sculpture video and site specific street performance provocateur daniel joseph martinez investigates challenging issues about america s social architecture democracy capitalism and the relationship between personal and collective identity. Daniel joseph martinez was born in los angeles in 1957 and received his b f a. The report of my death is an exaggeration. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.
Of becoming narrenschiff daniel joseph martinez second solo exhibition with the gallery features a new body of work investigating michel foucault s notions of narrenschiff and contemporary contiguities. One from a portfolio of twenty three screenprints with letterpress. Daniel joseph martinez.