Soft Vibrations Crossing Waves Through the Carrot Patch

Leslie Martinez

Soft Vibrations Crossing Waves Through the Carrot Patch, 2024122 x 152 x 20cmPrice on Request
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MaterialGalleryLocation
canvas scraps, used studio rags, used studio clothing, polyester sewing threads, paper fragments, paint chips, modeling paste, acrylic paint on canvasCommonwealth and CouncilLos Angeles
Description
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This abstract expressionist painting showcases a vibrant and dynamic composition. The canvas is awash with a bold palette of blues, reds, and purples, creating a sense of movement and depth. The artist has employed a layered, textured approach, with thick, gestural brushstrokes and drippings that add depth and complexity to the piece. While the subject matter is not immediately recognizable, the work evokes a sense of energy, chaos, and emotional intensity, reflecting the artist's unique style and interpretation of the medium. The overall effect is a captivating and thought-provoking work that invites the viewer to engage with its abstract, expressive qualities. ...

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Leslie Martinez
Artist
Leslie Martinez
B.1985, American

Leslie Martinez creates textured canvases, abstract in gradient multicolour, that explore the similarities between queerness and the South Texas-Mexico border. Their unique use of colour symbolises the power of abstraction in radical imagination, with the texture coming from the artist's zero-waste ethos: the canvas’ surface is created through the use of cast-off materials such as rugs, shirts and bits of previously failed artworks. Such recycling is reminist of life in the borderlands, one of precarity and resourcefulness. Having ancestral ties to the Rio Grande Valley, Martinez frequently travelled across the South Texas-Mexico border: their experience sparked the artist’s continuous investigation of racism and xenophobia present in the questions of belonging and estagement. With inspiration from artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Anselm Kiefer and cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz, Martinez creates works of queer imagination, anticipating a future where one can be free of societal prejudices and constraints. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Leslie Martinez: Artworks
The High Tone Glyphs of Disembodied Margins
Leslie MartinezThe High Tone Glyphs of Disembodied Margins, 2022Price on Request
Pathfinder's Ridge in This Quadrant of the Sun
Leslie MartinezPathfinder's Ridge in This Quadrant of the Sun, 2022Price on Request
With the Giant Ants Shooting Marbles in the Dust
Leslie MartinezWith the Giant Ants Shooting Marbles in the Dust, 2024Price on Request
Hot Rusty Hands Throwing Lasso on Steel Horns
Leslie MartinezHot Rusty Hands Throwing Lasso on Steel Horns, 2024Price on Request
Soft Vibrations Crossing Waves Through the Carrot Patch
Leslie MartinezSoft Vibrations Crossing Waves Through the Carrot Patch, 2024Price on Request
Commonwealth and Council
Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico City

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities.