Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Solo Exhibition PROMISE OF SWEETNESS

Solo Exhibition

PROMISE OF SWEETNESS


May 14 to June 12, 2022

Stamford Art Association
39 Franklin Street, Stamford, CT 06901
stamfordartassociation.org






Nadia Martinez's skill at controlling materials and transforming them into graceful, delicate forms of expression are refreshing and inspiring. In this body of work, by using sugar as her material, Nadia surrenders control and embraces process as a new aesthetic form, creating the conditions for generosity, contemplation, and discovery.

She questions the idea of "instant gratification." By revisiting a happy memory instead of relying on contemporary narratives of happiness and sweetness that Capitalism has promoted.
Nadia shares a happy memory with the public, and in exchange, she invites the viewer to do the same thing.


"These trying times have had everyone looking for comfort. In my search, I went deep into my childhood memories, back to "La Sierpe," my grandpa's molienda, his artisanal sugarcane mill, and plantation, and found my sweet and happy place—a wonderful space to escape from everything happening around me. In that memory, I found a new meaning for 'sweetness' that went beyond something that could be experienced with one sense. Remembering my family working together to make from scratch something sweet, I realized that the sweetness that I was looking for was found in community, traditions, and laughter. My project, Promise of Sweetness, chronicles the growing of sugarcane from seed to plant in an effort to conjure this happiness." – Nadia Martinez





Saturday, September 25, 2021

Exhibition A LA CARTA, Galería D'Museo, Venezuela.

I'm pleased to announce that three pieces of my Ways of Seeing series will be exhibited at Galería D'Museo in Caracas, Venezuela.

A LA CARTA
Septembre 2021 to February 2022

Opening: Thursday, September 16, 2021
11 am - 4 pm

Galería D’Museo
Centro de Artes los Galpones (G2)
Transversal 8 con Av. Ávila, Los Chorros
Caracas, Venezuela

Participating Artists: Susan Applewhite, Ricardo Arispe, Rafael Arteaga, Eduardo Azuaje, Yudith Contreras, Nadia Martínez, Dianora Pérez, Gabriel Pérez, Juan Toro Diez, Alejandro Torrealba, Efraín Ugueto y José Vivenes.





Saturday, July 24, 2021

MFA in Visual Art, S21 Residency Exhibition

My installation Untitled (Givers and Takers) 2021 was part of the virtual exhibition
MFA in Visual Art, Summer Residency Exhibition

Vermont College of Fine Arts
July 22 - October 22, 2021











Monday, March 1, 2021

Exhibition "The Body," New York School of the Arts

 My video Interpretations was included in this exhibition

The Body

March 1 - April 15, 2021

NYSA and HUB galleries & Virtual Show

Works in the exhibition reference the central theme of The Body: the body as a whole, a portion or fragment of the body, the idea of the body, the abstraction of the body, internal organs or physicality of the external body, the dream of the body, the imagined body, and the body either present or absent. Works include the body in all its forms, ideas, and concepts.

View Here

Monday, February 8, 2021

Tell Me Another Story, a Viewing Room from the K. Caraccio Collection

 I had the privilege to curate a Viewing Room from the K. Caraccio Collection. Tell Me Another Story

Curated by Nadia Martinez

Works by Vladimir Adreenkov, Arun Bose, Isabel Bigelow, Lamar Briggs, Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Kathy Caraccio, Hugh Kepets, Stephen Lorber, Takahiro Maruno, Louise Nevelson, and Doris Seidler.

This selection of prints from 1954 to 2017 walks a fine line between figurative and abstraction, where colors, shapes, textures, and compositions create narratives, allowing our imagination to construct our own stories.

A door that just closed or it’s about to open, a full moon, or a cold afternoon. Would he cross to the other side? What is behind that opening?

Visit the Viewing Room HERE https://www.kcaracciocollection.com/tellmeastory

Catalog Here



Sunday, January 31, 2021

VCFA MFA in Visual Art, Wnie2020 Residency Exhibition

My video Interpretations was part of the virtual exhibition

Vermont College of Fine Arts

MFA in Visual Art, Summer Residency Exhibition
On view January 21 - March 21, 2021




A Social Practice Project and Film 
INTERPRETATIONS 2021 
Film duration 5:37 min 
Directed and Edited by Nadia Martinez 

Participants: Leonor Mendoza & Daniela Recabarren Nicholas Lima Dennis Bourke & Elizabeth Marshall Rai Sanna Bethany LeJeune Tori JD Karen Lindsay A_Marcel Bearpaw Timber & Maiyan.

Monday, August 24, 2020

Curatorial Project: Together Exhibition

I was one of the recipients of the Connecticut Artists Respond Grant Program supported by the Connecticut Office of the Arts.


The Connecticut Office of the Arts recognizes that artists help through challenging times and is committed to investing in artists' ability to provide respite through inspiration, connection, and education. The Connecticut Artists Respond Grant Program provided funding to artists and teaching artists to support the creation and presentation of free and accessible on-line arts-based experiences, learning opportunities, and services to audiences across Connecticut - and beyond - using the World Wide Web.


I created an open call for artists for a virtual exhibition titled Together, and the selected artists were invited to participate in a workshop.

www.nowaboutart.com 


View the virtual exhibition click Here

Exhibition Catalog Here

TOGETHER

Virtual Exhibition

September 3 to October 1, 2020

Curated by Nadia Martinez


During these past months, we have experienced the power of coming together and staying together while staying apart. The artwork selected for this exhibition express in different ways unity, connection, integration, and togetherness.


Together
Sometimes it’s a collaboration
Sometimes it’s is a tribute to someone you admire or care for
Sometimes it’s a necessity
Sometimes is something that we see and make us think of unity and togetherness
Sometimes are the circumstances
Sometimes are the connections we make
Sometimes is a wish
Sometimes it’s so much more.






The Exhibition is made possible with the support of the Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts.
Acknowledging COA Support


More information here http://www.nowaboutart.com/news/togethervirtualexhibition