PATRICK MARTINEZ (B. 1980) Psychic Friends (Malcolm X) Lenticular, 2023 (This work is number one...

PATRICK MARTINEZ (B. 1980) Psychic Friends (Malcolm X) Lenticular, 2023 signed (lower right); numbered (lower left) Lenticular digital print on PETG plastic 24 x 19 in. 61 x 48.3 cm. This work is number one of five artist's proofs. Footnotes: Provenance Courtesy of the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles Exhibited Los Angeles, The Broad, Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog) 18 November-7 April 2024 Artist statement: Patrick Martinez maintains a diverse practice that includes mixed media landscape paintings, neon sign pieces, cake paintings, and his Pee Chee series of appropriative works. The landscape paintings are abstractions composed of Los Angeles surface content, e.g. distressed stucco, spray paint, window security bars, vinyl signage, ceramic tile, neon sign elements, and other recognizable materials. These works serve to evoke place and socio-economic position, and further unearth sites of personal, civic and cultural loss. Patrick's neon sign works are fabricated to mirror street level commercial signage but are remixed to present words and phrases drawn from literary and oratorical sources. Patrick Martinez (b. 1980, Pasadena, CA) earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Seoul, and the Netherlands, and at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian NMAAHC, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the Rollins Art Museum, the California African American Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and El Museo del Barrio, among others. Patrick's work resides in the permanent collections the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Broad Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), the Rubell Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the California African American Museum, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Tucson Museum of Art, the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, the University of North Dakota Permanent Collection, the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, the Crocker Art Museum, the Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University, the Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, the Rollins Museum of Art, and the Museum of Latin American Art, among others. Patrick lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing