Amanda Martínez

  • New York artist Amanda Martínez creates forms that rely on a visually and emotionally evocative code to access the histories and ancestries of place. Martínez’s work reinforces the belief that it is impossible to divorce form and design from structure and affect. Taking influence from construction and craft, Martínez imbues those traditional patterns with contemporaneity. When observed closely, Martínez’s emotive hand removes the veneer of singularity and opens the object up into a beautiful and fruitful negotiation between then and now, and here and there.
  • Exhibitions
  • 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