Patrick Martinez

	Patrick Martinez "Alien" mixed media installation

French-born artist Patrick Martinez breaks the boundaries between video, sculpture and paintings. His most noted piece to date, Liquid, which premiered at Parker’s Box in Brooklyn, New York, in 2003, thrust Martinez into the limelight of the post-modern art world.

At the exhibition of Liquid, the New York-based artist transformed a gallery into a space filled with his unique otherworldly images that evoked references to science fiction. He combined paintings, drawings, found objects, and film special effects to realize a multimedia installation. Oozing pits of neon green color percolated in the gallery floor, and video images pulsated, creating an environment in flux.

Liquid was made with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, The Association Française d'Action Artistique (AFAA) and Golden Artist Colors. It is part of Martinez’s collaboration with Le Pavé dans La Mare, Besançon, France.

Martinez demonstrates his artistic diversity by using a variety of media. In an untitled piece in 2002, he crafted a film by assembling in rapid sequence cryosection slices from male and human cadavers that were part of the “Visible Human Project,” sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. The footage resulted in abstract images that created the sensation of traveling swiftly through the human body.

Patrick Martinez was born in Besancon, France, in 1969. He currently lives in New York. He studied at the Institute of High Studies in Visual Arts in Paris, France , and at the Fine Arts School of Grenoble. His work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Metronom Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; Vallois Gallery in Paris, France; and at the Casa Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Group shows include Exit Art in NYC, Art in General in NYC, Contemporary Creation Center in Paris, and Arcos da Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Martinez has been an artist in residence in France, Japan and the United States.