Amanda MartínezEar to the ground (T. lucida), 2021

Hand carved pine and found spruce, baltic birch plywood from artist's former illegal live/work loft, wax emulsion with sustainably grown and cooperatively farmed tagetes lucida (Mexican mint marigold)

45 x 16 x 19 in

About the artist

Amanda Martinez is a sculptor whose works contain tessellated patterns that embrace a slowness both in process and reception. Though an attention to detail and uniformity across her surfaces may signal a mechanical means of production, Martínez in fact constructs her works entirely by hand. Inventing her own language of geometric abstraction, fashioning stencils or “profiles” of undulating shapes as distinct units of measurement, she maps out and carves her sculptures into discrete building blocks with infinite possible configurations.⁠ Amanda Martínez (b. 1988, Greenville, SC) 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. She l ives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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