Amanda Martínez

Biography
Amanda Martínez
Amanda Martínez lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from Kansas City Art Institute. She recently completed Cercado, an installation in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden as part of the Ankhlave Garden Project Fellowship. Solo presentations of her work include The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Ridgefield, CT; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan; Here Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; Victori+Mo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD, among others. Her work has been reviewed in Curbed, Surface Magazine, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, The New York Times, among others. 
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Works
  • Amanda Martínez, Astilla, 2023
    Amanda Martínez
    Astilla, 2023
    Colored pencil on paper
    9 x 6 inches
    22 x 15 cm
  • Amanda Martínez, Índice, 2022
    Amanda Martínez
    Índice, 2022
    Hand woven dyed natural reed, found wood, enamel
    18 x 13 x 3 1/2 inches
    45.7 x 33 x 8.9 cm
  • Amanda Martínez, Self map, 2022
    Amanda Martínez
    Self map, 2022
    Hand woven dyed natural reed, found wood, enamel
    25 x 25 x 3 1/2 inches
    63.5 x 63.5 x 8.9 cm
  • Amanda Martínez, Ear to the ground (T. lucida), 2021
    Amanda Martínez
    Ear to the ground (T. lucida), 2021
    Hand carved pine and found spruce, baltic birch plywood from artist's former illegal live/work loft, wax emulsion with sustainably grown and cooperatively farmed tagetes lucida (Mexican mint marigold)
    45 x 16 x 19 inches
    114.3 x 40.6 x 48.3 cm
  • Amanda Martínez, Working Meditation III. (Saltillo), 2024
    Amanda Martínez
    Working Meditation III. (Saltillo), 2024
    Found polystyrene, wood, enamel, shredded tire rubber, sand, acrylic polymer
    36 x 48 x 5 1/2 in
    91.4 x 121.9 x 14 cm
  • Amanda Martínez, Guía, 2024
    Amanda Martínez
    Guía, 2024
    Oxide pigmented cement, pigmented mortar, gravel, cement board, knotted dyed raffia, adobe (soil, clay, straw, sand, water)
    31 x 13 x 17 1/2 in
    78.7 x 33 x 44.5 cm
  • Amanda Martínez, Lazos que unen (Colcha bordado II.), 2023
    Amanda Martínez
    Lazos que unen (Colcha bordado II.), 2023
    Dyed merino wool thread on industrial wool felt
    29 1/2 x 33 x 1 in
    74.9 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm
  • Wall-mounted sculpture consisting of carved polystyrene pieces aggregated together to form a cream hued, interlocking patterned rectangular panel.
    Amanda Martínez
    Deletion, inversion, 2022
    Hand carved polystyrene, enamel, shredded tire rubber, acrylic polymer on wood
    26 x 22 x 4 in
    66 x 55.9 x 10.2 cm
  • Free-standing sculpture consisting of carved polystyrene pieces aggregated together to form a red hued, interlocking patterned square form that sits on top of a rectangular wooden pedestal.
    Amanda Martínez
    Señal, 2022
    Hand carved foam and wood, enamel, shredded tire rubber, acrylic polymer on pigmented stucco built to housing code (portland cement, sand, lime, water, pigment on wood, roofing tar paper and galvanized steel lathe) on found lumber pedestal
    49 1/2 x 16 x 7 1/4 in
    125.7 x 40.6 x 18.4 cm
  • Free-standing sculpture consisting of carved polystyrene and wood pieces aggregated together to form a light tan, interlocking patterned circular form that sits in a white, tall, rectangular stucco base as a support.
    Amanda Martínez
    Inherent Need, 2021
    Carving (hand carved polystyrene and wood, enamel shredded tire rubber, aggregates, acrylic polymer) on stucco base built to housing code (birch plywood, roofing felt, aluminum lathe, stucco)
    43 x 38 1/2 x 7 in
    109.2 x 97.8 x 17.8 cm
  • Free-standing sculpture consisting of carved polystyrene pieces aggregated together to form a navy hued, interlocking patterned form that sits on top of a white, triangular stucco base.
    Amanda Martínez
    Vestige, 2021
    Hand carved polystyrene and wood, enamel, shredded tire rubber, acrylic polymer on stucco base built to housing code (wood, roofing tar paper, galvanized steel lathe, stucco: portland cement, sand, lime, water)
    11 x 12 1/4 x 6 1/4 in
    27.9 x 31.1 x 15.9 cm
  • Amanda Martínez, Vision, 2021
    Amanda Martínez
    Vision, 2021
    Graphite on paper
    11 x 8 1/2 in
    27.9 x 21.6 cm
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