Saturday, May 26, 2018
New Chapter: New York School of the Arts
In August 2017, I embarked on a new adventure with a fantastic team to create New York School of the Arts. Many of us were sad to say goodbye to our previous home, but we turned around the situation and rolled up our sleeves and were able to open the school in October with a series of workshops, by November we were ready to start regular classes. We a great group of faculty members and range of art classes; we had a total of 6 exhibitions, one art fair, one open house and now added THE HUB on the 6th floor. Yes, we have been busy and have learned a big deal in the process. I can't believe today is the last day of the 2017 - 2018 school year!
Monday, January 29, 2018
Curatorial Project - Worth a Thousand Words
Worth A Thousand Words
January 29 - May 11
Opening reception Monday, Jan. 29, 5-7pm
Maritime Garage Gallery
11 N Water St. Norwalk, CT
11 N Water St. Norwalk, CT
Worth A Thousand Words, curated by Nadia Martinez, features works of art that communicate complex ideas in images. The 32 pieces in the exhibit show artists’ stories, emotions, concerns, memories, and ideas about life, nature, hope, world events, humanity, etc. Exhibiting artists include local artists Day Moore from Milford, Bobbie Bernstein of Westport, Gregory Ziebell of Norwalk and Carol M. Battin from Stamford.
The Maritime Garage Gallery is part of the Parking Authority’s “Art in Parking Places” placemaking initiative, an effort to support art in parking spaces.
Press Release
View exhibition's catalog HERE
View exhibition's catalog HERE
Friday, October 13, 2017
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Women to Watch 2018
I'm so excited, I was nominated for National Museum of Women in the Arts, Women to Watch 2018 by Shannon R. Stratton Museum of Arts and Design's William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator.
Monday, September 25, 2017
Curatorial Project - Memories of Our Town
Curatorial Project 2017
Memories of Our Town
Sept. 26, 2017, to January 5, 2018
Opening reception Tuesday, Sept. 26, 5-7pm
Opening reception Tuesday, Sept. 26, 5-7pm
Maritime Garage Gallery
11 N Water St. Norwalk, CT
Opening at the City of Norwalk Parking Authority’s Maritime Garage Gallery, opening Tuesday, Sept. 26, 5-7pm.
The show, curated by Nadia Martinez, features a variety of mediums that represents the unique memories of the place we call home
Monday, July 31, 2017
Maritime Garage Gallery
I'm the new curator at the Maritime Garage Gallery in Norwalk, Connecticut.
The Norwalk Parking Authority's Art in Public Places is part of a broad effort to support the arts and make use of city facilities while providing inspiring and thoughtful works for the public.Art in Parking Places currently has two venues. The South Norwalk Train Station has two permanent art installations celebrating the heritage and history of Norwalk. The Maritime Garage Gallery, an urban art gallery located at the Maritime Parking Garage, features juried art shows and community exhibits.
11 North Water Street, Norwalk, CT
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Curatorial Project - Indecipherable Messages
Curated by Nadia Martinez
Miranda Arts Project Space
6 N Pearl St. Suite 404 E
Port Chester, NY 10573
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 20th, 2017
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Every artwork in this exhibition is a form of expression that reflects a rotation of ideas, beliefs, concerns or exchanges among all those things within an artist’s mind. At first, the viewer might not be able to find meaning behind the marks or gestures that comprise an artwork or understand the circumstances that gave rise to its creation. The artist’s hand does not necessarily reveal a particular structure or order; however, a combination of intention and instinct often result in balance, a harmony of contrast, and rhythm within each piece. This process, unique to each artist, is a like a hidden language or code of expression; Indecipherable Messages whose meanings can be revealed only by their creators.
6th Annual Creative Mischief Exhibition.
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| Nadia Martinez, Touched by a Thousand Hands |
6th Annual Creative Mischief Exhibition
On view May 18 – June 13, 2017
Opening Reception: May 18, 6 – 9 PM
Join us as the National Academy Museum & School is transformed by the vision of the National Academicians, faculty, alumni, and students.
National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10128
Exhibition Hours: Monday – Sunday 11 AM – 6 PM
Find the press release here.
Creative Mischief is supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the generosity of private patrons and donors of the National Academy School.
WHITEHOT MAGAZINE
Discovering Artists, Both Old and New, at Creative Mischief
By PAUL LASTER, Jun. 2017
Displaying a wide range of artistic disciplines, the National Academy Museum & School’s 6th annual “Creative Mischief” exhibition is a great place to discover artists—both established practitioners and new talents. Featuring more than 100 works by National Academicians, faculty, alumni, and selected student artists, the show reflects the recent history of the 190-year-old cultural institution.
Tackling such contemporary concerns as spirituality, myth, nature and artifice, geometry and the body, illusion and form, symbolism, urban dreams, and play, “Creative Mischief” takes over the full exhibition space of the museum, which is housed in one of the few remaining Beaux-Arts mansions open to the public on Fifth Avenue, and in the Sonia Gechtoff Gallery at the National Academy School.
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LatinoLA
Creative Mischief at the National Academy Museum
Latina mixed-media visual artist Nadia Martinez joins a stellar roster of international artists at the National Academy Museum
By LatinoLA Contributor
Published on LatinoLA: June 7, 2017
The Archer M. Huntington Townhouse on museum mile in New York City hosts the final installment of the National Academy Museum's annual art exhibition, "Creative Mischief" known for presenting a diverse roster of international artists. The museum announced plans to sell the famous Beaux Art mansion, which means, legend 5th Avenue loses one of its most exquisite public spaces.
Part of what makes "Creative Mischief" so engaging is that the illustrious, historic hosts subject matters that range from naughty to vice, from evil to nice. Sexual violence, despair in poverty, spiritual recalibration, and other topics of the human heart fill three floors of the beautiful mansion.
Latina mixed media artist Nadia Martinez hangs a site-specific installation of meticulously netted resistors and crystals, and fellow sculptor Borinquen Gallo incorporates architectural building motifs into casts of silver-grey automotive hubcaps.
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