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EDDIE MARTINEZ Recent Growth 2023

EDDIE MARTINEZ
Emartllc No.5 (Recent Growth)
2023
Oil, acrylic, spray paint and silkscreen ink on linen
72 by 108 in. 182.9 by 274.3 cm.

EDDIE MARTINEZ BF 2420#14 (His Amazing) 2023

EDDIE MARTINEZ
BF 2420#14 (His Amazing)
2023
Oil, acrylic and spray paint on linen
25 1/2 by 20 1/2 in. 64.8 by 52.1 cm.

EDDIE MARTINEZ Bufly No. 39 2023

EDDIE MARTINEZ
Bufly No. 39 (Last Line)
2023

Oil and acrylic paint on linen

72 by 60 in. 182.9 by 152.4 cm.

EDDIE MARTINEZ  Horizons 2023

EDDIE MARTINEZ

Horizons
2023

Oil, acrylic, spray paint and silkscreen ink on linen

48 by 60 in. 121.9 by 152.4 cm.

EDDIE MARTINEZ   Bufly No. 6 2022

EDDIE MARTINEZ  
Bufly No. 6 (Blue Void)
2022 
Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 
84 by 72 in.  213.4 by 182.9 cm.

EDDIE MARTINEZ Full Bloom 2023

EDDIE MARTINEZ
Full Bloom
2023

Oil, acrylic paint, spray paint and footprint on linen

60 by 48 in. 152.4 by 121.9 cm.

EDDIE MARTINEZ  New Growth 2023

EDDIE MARTINEZ

New Growth
2023

Oil, acrylic paint and footprint on linen

60 by 48 in. 152.4 by 121.9 cm.

EDDIE MARTINEZ Wishing Well 2023

EDDIE MARTINEZ
Wishing Well
2023
Oil paint, oil stick and acrylic paint on linen
48 by 60 in. 121.9 by 152.4 cm.

EDDIE MARTINEZ Bufly No. 27 2023

EDDIE MARTINEZ
Bufly No. 27 (White Light)
2023
Oil paint, oil stick and acrylic paint on linen
96 by 75 in. 243.8 by 190.5 cm.

Press Release

Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce our fifth solo exhibition with Brooklyn-based painter Eddie Martinez. Wavelengths will feature nine new paintings and will be on view from February 1 to March 9, 2024.    

Over the past two decades, Martinez has become known for his striking and energetic style of painting, part of an expansive practice that includes painted bronze sculptures, works on paper and printmaking.  Deftly layering oil, acrylic and enamel paint, and employing an ever-evolving vocabulary of characters and symbols, Martinez has cultivated a style uniquely his own.   

Many of the new paintings featured in Wavelengths belong to Martinez’s ongoing Whiteouts series.  Started in 2015, he has continuously returned to this series in which a colorful, underlying painting is covered with white paint.  Ranging from a thick impasto to a thin wash, the final layer reads as a veil over the surface, softening but not hiding the vibrant image beneath.    

With Full Bloom, Martinez returns to his well-known flowerpot series.  A cartoonish flower emerges from a spherical pot, its petals pressing just beyond the edge of the canvas.  Rich blues, reds, yellow and greens peek through but are obscured by both a thin whitewash and an opaque white line. The background and foreground collapse into each other, dissolving the flower into abstract, geometric building blocks.  With another flowerpot painting, New Growth, Martinez pushes this idea further as the flowerpot composition seems to disassemble and reassemble before the viewer’s eyes.   

In the largest painting in the show, Recent Growth, familiar forms jostle together in a visual cacophony: a leaf, a tennis ball, a flower, a blockhead.  With no discernable focal point, the viewer’s eye travels from edge to edge, top to bottom revealing a lyrical dance of addition and subtraction, definition and erasure.