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DANIEL JOSEPH MARTINEZ (1957 - ) A meditation on the possibility...
White Carrara marble, 2005. Approximately 304x127x25 and 254x101x25 mm; 12x5x1 and 10x4x1 inches. Edition of 50.
Provenance: acquired at the William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts Gala/Auction, Los Angeles, private collection, Virginia (2009).
The artist's full title for this artwork is A meditation on the possibility of romantic love or where are you going with that gun in your hand, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton discuss the relationships between expressionism and social reality present in Hitler's paintings.
Daniel Joseph Martinez's sculptures depict the Black Panther leaders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Carrara marble, a highly coveted stone symbolizing wealth and heroic statuary. He casts the history of Black revolutionaries into the artistic tradition of monumentality to expose cultural contradictions and increase public awareness.
Throughout his career, Martinez engaged in an interrogation of social, political, and cultural mores by creating artworks spanning the ephemeral to the solid. His practice takes the form of text, sculpture, photography, painting, installation, robotics, performance, and public interventions. Their commonality is they all address topics of race, class, and sociopolitical boundaries present within American society.
Martinez received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1979. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2017, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín, Colombia, 2016, Jewish Museum, New York, 2016 and Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012. Martinez represented the United States in eleven biennials worldwide, including SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Berlin Biennial, California Biennial, Quebec Biennial, Venice Biennale and Whitney Biennial in both 1993 and 2008. He also represented the United States in the American Pavilion in the Cairo Biennial, 2006. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, Italy, American Academy Fellowship, Berlin, Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, ArtPace Foundation Fellowship and Residency, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Getty Center Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships. Martinez cofounded Deep River Gallery and LAXART, both in Los Angeles. He is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine.
