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Daniel Joseph Martinez, born 1957, is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist. In his work, Martinez is most committed to the caesura, the breach, the gap, the fragment that suggests an entirety, but veers away from revelation at the last moment, the center that does not hold and never will, but attempts cohesion anyway, the shimmering movement at the corner of the eye, but never the eye itself. Martinez’ work stands as a kind of visual testament to a highly metaphoric and fluid sensibility that transcends the predetermined boundaries of contemporary culture, privileging fractured experience in an attempt to create a new originative solidity. At the heart of Martinez’ practice is an inherent understanding of altruism in so far as any work of art is a means not only of personal expression, but of extension and connection to something beyond itself; central to this artist’s conceptual observations is the idea that mystery and ambiguity can be a means of witnessing and documenting the living world. Martinez encourages mutation, transformation, evolution, and as a working artist operates as a conduit, forging new open spaces, pushing outward into collective thought, at times defying even the boundaries of his chosen media, begging questions that have no literal verifiable answers, but exist as an afterimage of shared experience.

Collections

The work of Daniel Joseph Martinez can be found in many public collections both in the United States and abroad including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, New York; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; and the Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX, among others.

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