With Frieze London and Paris + right around the corner, galleries across the two cities are gearing up to stage concurrent shows that both expand and challenge the fairs’ abilities to capture the pulse of today’s art world.
Eddie Martinez approaches his work with an energetic and obsessive force, sometimes using various objects in his studio, such as a paint cap and a screw, in lieu of a paintbrush to apply oil, acrylic, silkscreen ink, and spray paint to giant canvases. The self-taught, Brooklyn-based artist is a collector favorite who has seen a rapid rise in the art market. “Enough” features nine new large-scale paintings made in the last two years, including three from the artist’s ongoing “Whiteouts” series. The exhibition runs concurrently with Frieze London, where Timothy Taylor will present a solo booth of the painter’s work. Martinez’s abstract composites recall the cryptic iconography of graffiti, while fragmented limbs à la less grotesque Guston offer hints of figuration. Flower pots, butterflies, human faces, and children’s toys refract and collapse into each other, hinting at the artist’s figurative past.
