Juxtapoz Magazine – Patrick Martinez Maps the “Promised Land”

“I guess I am tapping into the land, suitable?,” Patrick Martinez informed me in our Spring 2022 Quarterly. “Which is my full concept with these parts that I am creating with the stucco, the neon, the tile and all that, having supplies from the land to produce the landscape. Sampling those people sections. That precise orientation, or the way I am composing it, is certain to LA.” We have been talking about LA as a city of room and likelihood, of limitations and unlimited inspiration. A melting pot of goals and disappointments. And block by block, LA reveals by itself, as a city in development and in limited time, a metropolis with historical past stacked upon heritage and immigrantion transforming what it is at all time. It truly is a lovely if not complicated position, and Patrick is piecing it all together, producing a map for all of us to see 1 of the most unique locations on earth. 

His newset solo display is just this: Promised Land, on watch now at Charlie James Gallery, is the two a good and collaged typography of Los Angeles only accomplished by anyone who was born and bred here. As I wrote when about his do the job, “Martinez has taken the landscape of LA, a area he characterizes as nonetheless “in-development,” making get the job done that combines mediums, styles, eras, cultures, neighborhoods and the exceptional characteristics of his panoramic view.” Probably staying a new father has designed him appear at his city with contemporary eyes, what it is and what it can turn out to be. It can be a exhibit about the fading of time and finding up the items. It is the two a visceral and engrained working experience. —Evan Pricco