Marisol Martinez is an artist whose abstract paintings explore the mechanisms of color and shape as tools of expression to evoke emotional states. Drawing on her established visual vocabulary of patterns, graphics, and geometries, The Space Between Us #1 is a pared-down version of her typically denser compositional language. Made specifically for the exhibition “XX” at LatchKey Gallery, Martinez was thinking about the contemporary context of the concurrent Black Lives Matter movement, political turmoil, and COVID-19 pandemic and what the breaking apart and reconstituting of society in light of these events might look like. Like other artists included in the “XX” exhibition, Martinez’s work addresses the possibilities of contemporary Latinx abstraction and how social and political contexts can be referenced through formal means.
Martinez received her BA from Parsons School of Design/The New School. She has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. Her work is held in numerous private collections, including the Prada Collection in Bogota, Columbia, the Aiello Collection in New York City, and the Cardenas Collection in Chicago. She has lived and studied in Paris, Miami, and Los Angeles, and currently lives and works in New York.
