{"id":18978,"date":"2013-11-06T20:39:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=18978"},"modified":"2013-11-06T23:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T04:18:29","slug":"alfredo-martinez-unraveling-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2013\/11\/06\/alfredo-martinez-unraveling-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"~ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . UNRAVELING REALITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘UNRAVELING REALITIES’ – CURATED BY HASH HALPER and AMY LI
\nOCT 17-31, 2013
\n166 MOTT ST<\/a> – LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC<\/p>\n

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\nthe show’s curators: HASH HALPER and AMY LI .. an awesome duo.
\n166 MOTT ST<\/a>, an alternative art space is located right at the outermost intersection of . . Chinatown meets Little Italy.<\/p>\n

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\nALFREDO MARTINEZ and AMY LI.<\/p>\n

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\nWC BEVAN checks out Alfredo’s new work . .<\/p>\n

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\nALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘Iulia Longam Posteritatem (Julia for remote posterity)’.
\nmixed media, incl coffee and Acrylic paint, paper collage on wood. 31 x 26 in.
\n($2,500)<\/p>\n

I have never seen Alfredo paint a woman’s face, before.
\nI think it’s amazing. beautiful, radiant.
\nrealistic, poetic, one-of-a-kind.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, ALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘Iulia’.<\/p>\n

he uses coffee ‘pigment’ to get those darker stains and deep red\/brown hues.
\nthe hair, eyes and red lips are – drop dead, great.
\ndamn, the nose is good too. those flaring nostrils, stand off-ish .. and, passionate. <\/p>\n

he also looks to have used plenty of gel medium, or maybe just ordinary household paper glue . . the work has an amazing shine to it.
\nan interesting contrast to the paper collage foundation.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen Alfredo paint men, before. he liked that same .. close-up face format, then too.
\nnotably in the ‘convict’ portraits he did when he was in the big house, here in NYC .. serving a two year sentence for art fraud. ca. 2002.
\nbut I didn’t know he could paint, women . . like that.
\nguns, women. check.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, ALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘Iulia’.
\nthat’s where he perfected that hair .. ‘craft’, in prison.
\nit’s nice, I really like it . . very graphic, and very ‘picturesque’.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, ALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘Iulia’.
\ntrust a forger . to have a lock-down logo, and . . signature.
\nand one-of-a-kind paper . . he couldn’t get his hands on any art paper in prison. so he learnt to make his own ‘collaged’ paper – from scrap paper, from an old Russian inmate.
\nin the absence of any art supplies, he also learnt to make color ‘pigments’ from tipping little instant coffee packets into cups of water.
\nI guess paper glue was available. or did he use flour and water.
\nsomething, like that.<\/p>\n

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\nthis is an interesting group of ‘private’ snips of his, or somebody’s .. life.
\nit feels a little scary. who has .. your info ?
\nyou can see the edges of the work, which make for a very 3D presence, even in fact a kind of .. ‘shallow’ sculpture. it’s definitely more an ‘object’, than a piece of ‘paper’<\/p>\n

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\nfrom left: JOSHIE ARMSTEAD and MICK LEWIS.
\nMICK LEWIS is one of Hash’s many brothers, he is a musician, and he leads a band called, THE FINE PRINT.
\nsee: MICK LEWIS & THE FINE PRINT\/FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

better yet, listen to: MICK LEWIS & THE FINE PRINT, ‘I Thought I heard Your Voice, New York’ – YouTube.
\nwow. so how, I’m feeling, or what.<\/a><\/p>\n

JOSHIE ARMSTEAD is a composer, singer, and .. back-up singer.
\nRAY CHARLES sang her songs, and they co-wrote a few that went to become famous . .
\nshe was also an original .. IKETTE, a back-up singer\/dancer for Ike and Tina Turner.
\nsee: JO ARMSTEAD .. WIKI<\/a><\/p>\n

and listen to this: JO ARMSTEAD, ‘THIS AND THAT’ .. YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nRAY. aka The Love Child.<\/p>\n

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\nhe had done a nice custom paint ‘tag’ . . on his jacket.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Love Child . . colored chalk on sidewalk.
\ngorgeous evening light .. all NYC !!<\/p>\n

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\nRay’s friend . . Sidi.<\/p>\n

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\non the right, HASH HALPER<\/a> . . with ANDREA MESSIER CUOMO.
\nthe opening was over . . the art was good.
\nand . . all the players were slipping out, out into the early night.
\nand so, underground NEW YORK CITY . . ‘beats’ on. <\/p>\n

R.I.P. LOU REED.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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