Donald Martiny
Donald Martiny 
Condé Nast Building
November 14, 2013 - January 7, 2014
Monday - Friday, 8 am - 7 pm
Reception: Thursday, November 14th, 6 - 8 pm
Donald Martiny makes single-color works in polymer medium and dispersed pigment that free themselves from the traditional painting support to form large brush strokes directly against the wall. They are paintings made exclusively out of paint. In many aspects they present a formal mix of Roy Lichtenstein’s brush stroke paintings, Lynda Benglis’s knotted wall pieces and Ellsworth Kelly’s shaped monochromes, but with an attenuated physical presence all their own. Martiny's high relief flirts with sculpture, yet his working method and his conceptual focus ground these works firmly in principles fundamental to painting. Martiny, who currently lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, studied at the
School of the Visual Arts, The Art Students League of New York, New York University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His work is in private collections in Raleigh, Dallas, Philadelphia, WashingtonDC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Paris. Upcoming shows in 2014 include a solo exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Condé Nast Building
4 Times Square
New York, NYNovember 14, 2013 - January 7, 2014
Monday - Friday, 8 am - 7 pm
Reception: Thursday, November 14th, 6 - 8 pm
Donald Martiny makes single-color works in polymer medium and dispersed pigment that free themselves from the traditional painting support to form large brush strokes directly against the wall. They are paintings made exclusively out of paint. In many aspects they present a formal mix of Roy Lichtenstein’s brush stroke paintings, Lynda Benglis’s knotted wall pieces and Ellsworth Kelly’s shaped monochromes, but with an attenuated physical presence all their own. Martiny's high relief flirts with sculpture, yet his working method and his conceptual focus ground these works firmly in principles fundamental to painting. Martiny, who currently lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, studied at the
School of the Visual Arts, The Art Students League of New York, New York University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His work is in private collections in Raleigh, Dallas, Philadelphia, WashingtonDC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Paris. Upcoming shows in 2014 include a solo exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
