Eddie Martinez's Risky Business | Art21 "New York Close Up"
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Why would an artist change his signature style after proven success? Walking the graffiti-filled streets of his Greenpoint neighborhood and working in his nearby Williamsburg studio, Brooklyn-based artist Eddie Martinez discusses the motivation to shift his paintings from Pop-like figurations to pared down abstractions. An active graffiti artist in his teens and twenties, Martinez describes both the allure and difficulty of graffiti's inherent riskiness, and reveals how his work now is an equally risky endeavor, artistically and professionally. A montage of Martinez's previous paintings -brightly colored and unabashedly representational paintings of flowerpots and cartoonish characters-exemplifies the prodigious output that brought him commercial attention and success, but now represents a style he "feels wholly committed to abandoning." Despite the expectations of his gallery and collectors, Martinez says, "It's just impossible for me to keep making the same image I made six years ago." He describes how he's both excited and frightened to forge a fully abstract style, to paint without easy reliance on old imagery. Months afterwards the results of Martinez's stylistic shift-near mural-sized canvases of primary colored forms set against open white backgrounds-are shown on exhibition at The Journal Gallery in Brooklyn. For Martinez, the change was a necessary leap of faith, one he hopes his followers will continue to support.
Eddie Martinez (b. 1977, Groton, Connecticut) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about the artist at:
www.art21.org/n...
CREDITS | New York Close Up Created & Produced by: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Cinematography: John Marton, Nick Ravich, & Rafael Moreno Salazar. Sound: Nick Ravich. Associate Producer: Ian Forster. Design & Graphics: Stephanie Andreou, Crux Studio & Open. Artwork: Eddie Martinez. Thanks: Franny, Sara Hantman, Emilia Olsen, The Journal Gallery. An Art21 Workshop Production. © Art21, Inc. 2013. All rights reserved.
New York Close Up is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; Toby Devan Lewis; Lambent Foundation; the Dedalus Foundation, Inc.; and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. Additional support provided by The 1896 Studios & Stages, and by individual contributors.
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Love Eddie and his work . The way he talks about the growth of an artist and the true meaning of support to artist.
I die for mark making like this! visually stunning, love it
That means it lives in you - like an emerald lake under moss .. just take away the moss 🙏🏼
This is the type of stuff I LOVE
Would love to see more of Eddie and his art.
I love the word he says terrifying and interesting at same time.
unique initiative of your great T E A M reflects in every shots , inspire Creativity , Skills & confidence .
ART 21 Has achieved Excellence & Leadership .
his paintings has mllions of value in the market
Right on!
love the art
great....
could we see more of eddie and his work?
rethink that.
4:30 is the one I see that's working
It would be funny to force KAWS to work in Eddie's studio:)))
to that is what is called having resources but have no talent! It is a sad look as far as a degraded art!
+XFOUX1 I mean yes, it made me think when I would do this kind of empty art would I be critical to it? or would I just go with it like this guy...
There is no talent, if you're saying that you need to be a born artist. There's only learning through practice and intuition.
@@ThePooper3000 Agree
200$ glob of white oil paint. Painting is an expensive art form 🤣🤣🤣
franny needs a buddy
Are you serious?
toooy
If you don’t know what your painting about or your painting to please the gallery then your pretty much lost ,best go back down the snake and start again .
if an artists wears a gloves, he is not an artist.
mckenna250 you are kidding right? protecting your health from cancerous chemicals so you can live a longer, healthy life makes you not an artist? no my friend, it would make you STOOOOOPID....
Mckenna250 your comment is hands down the dumbest comment I have seen on CZcams in 2020.