Raul Martinez
Masters of the Imagination: The Latin American Fine Art Exhibition
October 21 - November 10, 2006
Reception:
Thursday October 26, 2006 6-8 PM
Press Release
In Raul Martinez’s painting, “Self Portrait,” the artist’s hands, turned inward, are tranquil yet melancholy in their stillness and isolation. The artist does not show his face, but reveals so much more by sinking his arms into a milky light. This, Martinez is telling us, is where his art is created, and where he reveals himself. This palpable mood is also conveyed in Martinez’s black and white studies of women portrayed within a painterly environment of light, shadow and motion. Like the artist in his ironically titled self-portrait, his subjects are physically vulnerable and turned away, yet we know intuitively the complex emotional landscape of these women, for Martinez has made it the substance of their surroundings. When he works in color, sunlight is key to Martinez’s work. Whether contemplating a dozing figure or capturing the kaleidoscopic impressions of a streetscape, Martinez uses light as a tool for an exuberant investigation of the isolated moment. Raul Martinez has shown his powerful oil painting throughout Puerto Rico and has recently been invited to participate in international shows in Valladolid, Spain and The Hague, Holland.
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