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Lot Essay
“All my drawings start with a line drawing. I don’t use a silk screen all the time, but it’s a tool that I started employing in 2015, with the continued interest of trying to have a large painting feel like a small, intimate drawing — specifically like one made with a Sharpie on the couch.” – EDDIE MARTINEZ
As curator João Ribas asserts, Martinez’s works “look to genre painting to enact a confrontation with tradition, negotiating a set of pictorial conventions drawn from the vocabulary of genre, yet through the modernist logic of subjective, individual style. […] Martinez pairs traditional structure with self-generated imagery. The results are dense, playful, but considered paintings, revolving around the iteration of his signature motifs” (João Ribas, “A Paradox of Genre”, 2008).
As curator João Ribas asserts, Martinez’s works “look to genre painting to enact a confrontation with tradition, negotiating a set of pictorial conventions drawn from the vocabulary of genre, yet through the modernist logic of subjective, individual style. […] Martinez pairs traditional structure with self-generated imagery. The results are dense, playful, but considered paintings, revolving around the iteration of his signature motifs” (João Ribas, “A Paradox of Genre”, 2008).