Amanda Martínez
Biography
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.
Works
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Amanda MartínezAntorcha, 2024Found lumber, found polystyrene, gypsum plaster, sand, acrylic polymer25 x 24 1/4 x 23 3/4 in
63.5 x 61.6 x 60.3 cm -
Amanda MartínezWorking Meditation III. (Saltillo), 2024Found polystyrene, wood, enamel, shredded tire rubber, sand, acrylic polymer36 x 48 x 5 1/2 in
91.4 x 121.9 x 14 cm -
Amanda MartínezNicho, 2023Wood, pigmented stucco, (stucco: portland cement, sand, lime, water; natural pigments and dispersion dyes), galvanized steel lathe, roofing tar paper60 x 48 x 8 in
152.4 x 121.9 x 20.3 cm -
Amanda MartínezGuía, 2024Oxide 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 MartínezArmazón, 2023Wood, Hand carved polystyrene, lava rock, pigmented stucco (stucco: portland cement, sand, lime, water; natural iron oxide pigment), galvanized steel lathe, roofing tar paper, sand, shredded tire rubber, acrylic polymer, enamel72 x 126 x 6 in
182.9 x 320 x 15.2 cm -
Amanda MartínezLazos que unen (Colcha bordado II.), 2023Dyed merino wool thread on industrial wool felt29 1/2 x 33 x 1 in
74.9 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm -
Amanda MartínezDeletion, inversion, 2022Hand carved polystyrene, enamel, shredded tire rubber, acrylic polymer on wood26 x 22 x 4 in
66 x 55.9 x 10.2 cm -
Amanda MartínezDuplication, inversion, 2022Hand carved pine in maple and birch artist's frame24 x 22 3/4 x 3 7/8 in
61 x 57.8 x 9.8 cm -
Amanda MartínezLazos que unen (Colcha bordado I.), 2022Hand embroidered dyed merino wool on industrial wool felt31 x 31 x 1 in
78.7 x 78.7 x 2.5 cm
Exhibitions
Press
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6 Exciting Designers at the NADA Art Fair
Morgan Meier, CURBED, May 10, 2024 -
The Best Booths at NADA New York, From Sci-Fi Utopias to Remixed Folklore
Tessa Solomon, ARTnews, May 2, 2024 -
Standouts at NADA New York, the Fair for Up-and-Comers
Will Heinrich, The New York Times, May 2, 2024 -
HESSE FLATOW and Amanda Martínez at Intersect Aspen in The Art Newspaper
Torey Akers, The Art Newspaper , August 4, 2023 -
Amanda Martínez in "A new exhibit at Brooklyn Botanic Garden showcases the power of trees"
Rossilynne Skena Culgan, Time Out New York, June 15, 2023 -
In The Studio with Amanda Martínez
Katie Hector, Maake Magazine, January 1, 2019 -
Amanda Martinez’s New Wave Inspired Sculptures at VICTORI + MO
Art Reveal, February 28, 2018
News
Events
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NADA New York 2024
Amanda Martínez, Emma Safir, Alina Tenser May 2 - 5, 2024For NADA New York 2024, HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present an all-female artist booth featuring freestanding and wall-mounted sculptures by gallery artists Alina Tenser...Read more -
Dallas Art Fair 2024
Aglaé Bassens, Louise Belcourt, Sarah Blaustein, Lizzie Gill, Charlotte Hallberg, Elizabeth Hazan, Amanda Martínez, Nat Meade & Luis Edgar Mejicanos April 4 - 7, 2024HESSE FLATOW is pleased to participate in the 2024 Dallas Art Fair , with a presentation of works by Aglaé Bassens, Louise Belcourt, Sarah Blaustein,...Read more -
Intersect Aspen 2023
Sarah Blaustein, Michael Childress, Amanda Martínez, and Jonathan Ryan August 1 - 4, 2023HESSE FLATOW is pleased to participate in Intersect Aspen 2023 with a presentation of works by Sarah Blaustein, Michael Childress, Amanda Martínez, and Jonathan Ryan....Read more -
Artists in Conversation
Amanda Martinez "Hora de Cuentos" October 1, 20224PM In honor of Latinx Heritage Month and the closing day of querencia, artists Amanda Martínez and Lucía Rodríguez will host an hora de cuentos....Read more