Faculty Exhibition 2022, NYSA

The Faculty Exhibition 2022 - 2023 at the New York School of the Arts showcased the diverse talents of faculty members. It was a vibrant celebration of creativity, innovation, and artistic vision.

My artwork is a three-piece installation titled Ways of Seeing, 2021, 2022, highlighting various mediums, including drawing, sculpture, and photography.

The installation explores the concept of perception, inviting viewers to engage with art in new and thought-provoking ways. The title suggests multiple layers of interpretation regarding how we perceive the world. The photograph collage comprises hundreds of detailed photographs of the sculpture, and the drawing depicts the sculpture. Each piece shows a different state of the sugar sculpture as it transforms over time.

Nadia Martinez, Ways of Seeing, 2021, 2022

Faculty Exhibition 

on view September - November 2022

New York School of the Arts, 315 E 62nd Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10065. www.newyorkschoolofthearts.org 

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

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.

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

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.

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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

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.