Donald Martiny

Donald Martiny (born 1953 in Schenectady, New York) is an American artist. His abstract paintings are related to both action painting and Abstract expressionism.

Donald Martiny
Donald Martiny shares his One World Trade Center work Unami in 2015. Unami is 1 of 2 permanent works installed on the ground floor lobby of One World Trade Center.
Born1953
Schenectady, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materArt Students League of New York
New York University
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Known forPainting
Spouse(s)Celia Johnson
Websitedonaldmartiny.com

Life

Donald Martiny studied from 1977 to 1980 at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. From 1980 to 1983 he was a student at the Art Students League of New York. At the same time he attended courses on art at the New York University. From 2007 to 2009 he continued his education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[1] He lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

In 2015 Martiny received a scholarship as an Artist in Residence of the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts in New Berlin, New York State[2] and was represented in the annual exhibition of the artists there. Also in 2015, Martiny was invited to produce two large works for the One World Trade Center, which are permanently exhibited there. Martiny has lectured at Cornell University and at the Ackland Art Museum. There, in 2016, he conducted a public discussion on the painter Hans Hoffmann in the context of an exhibition of his works.[3]

Work

In an interview, Martiny has been called a gestural abstractionist.[4] This term refers to a method of how the painter applies color to an object: "The idea was that the artist would physically act out his inner impulses, and that something of his emotion or state of mind would be read by the viewer in the resulting paint marks." (Tate Galleries)[5] This technique is also known as Action painting.

Martiny describes his work as follows: "My paintings are actual authentic gestures. These brushstrokes are very much me and I want to be present in the works as honestly and authentically as I can be. They are a record of my physicality at a specific point in time."[4]

Martiny does not paint on canvases or rectangular backgrounds. His works show the immediately frozen brushstroke, as Martiny designed it in his movements. He had to experiment for years with the composition of the paint, which should be liquid enough to reproduce the brush stroke well and at the same time be so durable in a dry state that the work can be mounted on the wall without breaking. The finished work is reinforced by an aluminium plate cut to the exact dimensions of the brush stroke as a base. The paintings then look like a relief on the wall.

The paint Martiny uses consists of a mixture of water-based polymers enriched with pigments. Sometimes he stretches this mixture with so-called microbubbles, which ensure that the paint looks light.[4]

In contrast to the working method of other artists of Action painting, Martinys works are not only spontaneous. He first creates a sketch in miniature and, if he likes it, he produces the work in ever larger dimensions. He always works on the floor because this situation gives him the greatest freedom in his brushstrokes. He makes his own brushes, and sometimes he also takes his hands to express all his current emotions in the work. Martiny on his works: "Brushstrokes are dances trapped in paintings".[4]

Videography
  • 2013: Video of the Biennale Non-Objective, Le Pont-de-Claix, France (2013): 10′ 14″[6]
  • 2015: Video about the exhibition Donald Martiny: Freeing the Gesture, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, United States (Mai 2014): 09′ 26″[7]
  • 2015: Video about the exhibition State of the Art – Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum, United States (2015): 05′ 18″[8]
  • 2015: Video about Donald Martinys work in the One World Trade Center, New York City, United States (2015): 05′ 14″[9]
  • 2015: Video about the exhibition Donald Martiny: Gestures, Galerie Madison, La Jolla, United States (2015): 01′ 58″ [10]
  • 2019: Video about the exhibition Donald Martiny: Fu in principio Materia Divina ("In the beginning there was Divine Material"), Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, Italy (2019): 02′ 54″[11]
  • 2020: Video interview with Donald Martiny about his working method[12]

Audio
  • 2015: A Chapel Hill Artist Paints His Way Into The World Trade Center[13]

Works in Collections (Selection)

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
  • 2014: Donald Martiny: New Paintings,[18] George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, United States
  • 2014: Donald Martiny: Freeing the Gesture,[19] Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, United States
  • 2015: Donald Martiny: Gestures,[20] Madison Gallery, La Jolla, United States
  • 2016: Donald Martiny: Moving Paint,[21] Gallery Urbane, Dallas, United States
  • 2016: Donald Martiny Paintings. Freeing the Gesture,[22] Alden B Dow Museum of Art and Science, Midland, Michigan, United States
  • 2016: Donald Martiny[23] Galleri Urbane Dallas, United States
  • 2016: Donald Martiny: New Paintings,[24] Pentimenti Galerie, Philadelphia, United States
  • 2017: Donald Martiny: Pittura a Macchia,[25] Madison Gallery, La Jolla, United States
  • 2017: Donald Martiny New Works: The River Series,[26][27] Diehl Gallery, Jackson, United States
  • 2017: Donald Martiny,[28] Artea Gallery, Milan, Italy
  • 2017: Overtones – Undercurrents,[29] Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, USA
  • 2018: Donald Martiny – Brushstrokes – dances captured in paintings,[30] Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2018: Donald Martiny: Epistrophy,[31] Galleri Urbane, Dallas, Texas, United States
  • 2019: Donald Martiny: Divine Material,[32] Museum Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, Italy
  • 2019: Donald Martiny: Open,[33] Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, United States
  • 2019: Donald Martiny: Expanding the gestural Index,[34] Pentimenti Galerie, Philadelphia, United States

Group Exhibitions (Selection)
  • 2013: Fundaments,[35] Galerie Concret, Paris, France
  • 2013: Pourquoi pas – Why not. 2e Biennale internationale d’art non objectif, Le Pont de Claix, France
  • 2014: 25 Years Conny Dietzschold Galerie,[36] Conny Dietzschold Galerie, Cologne, Germany
  • 2014: 7 x Farbe pur. Monochrome Malerei, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2014: China Art Projects,[37] Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China
  • 2015: State of the Art – Art of the State[38] Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, United States
  • 2015: Interact: Deconstructing Spectatorship: East Wing Biennial,[39] The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
  • 2015: Is it...Monochrome, Colorfield, or Object?,[40] Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, United States
  • 2015: Pino Pinelli, Donald Martiny, Bram Bogart,[41] ArteA Gallery, Milan, Italy
  • 2016: Made in Paint: Golden. Artworks of the 2015 artists in residence,[42] Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, United States
  • 2016: Plastische Malerei: Pino Pinelli, Donald Martiny und Matthias Lutzeyer,[43] Klaus Braun Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2016: 60 Americans,[44] MakeShift Museum, Los Angeles, United States
  • 2016: It’s all about the hue,[45][46] GreenHill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, United States
  • 2016: All Things Great and Small,[47] Falmouth Art Museum, Falmouth, Cornwall, Cornwall, England
  • 2017: Remember when this wasn’t quite how I remembered it?,[48] Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
  • 2017: The Enduring Reasons Why: Celebrating 25,[49][50] Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
  • 2017: Dialectical Praxis – Celia Johnson & Donald Martiny,[51][52] Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, United States
  • 2017: State of the Art – Art of the State,[53] Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, United States
  • 2018: Roter Faden – Schwarz,[54] Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2018/2019: Emergence,[55] Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
  • 2018/2019: Art Window: Donald Martiny,[56] North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
  • 2019: Simply Red,[57] Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, Texas

Art in Public Places

Further reading
  • ArteA Gallery, ed. (2016). Bram Bogart, Pino Pinelli, Donald Martiny (in English and Italian). Milan: ArteA Gallery.
  • Carter Ratcliff, Charles A. Shepard III, Deborah Swallow, Lawrence J. Wheeler (2016). Donald Martiny: Monumental Gestures: Paintings form 2013–2016. Chapel Hill: Donald Martiny. ISBN 978-0692351277.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

References
  1. "Donald Martiny. Education". madisongalleries.com. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  2. "Golden Foundation: Past Residents 2015". goldenfooundation. org. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  3. "Walls of Color: The Murals of Hans Hofmann. Exhibition is the first to focus on Hofmann's public mosaic projects" (Pdf, 782,90 KB). ackland.org (Ackland Art Museum). January 8, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  4. Isabel Wong (November 17, 2017). "Art Talk: Proves There's Power Behind Every Brushstroke". hk.asiatatler.com. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  5. "Art Term: Gestural". tate.org. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  6. Roland Orépük (September 18, 2013). "Biennale internationale d'art non objectif de la ville de Pont de Claix" [International non-objective art biennial of the city of Pont de Claix.]. youtube.com. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  7. "Donald Martiny Discusses his Artwork at FWMoA". vimeo.de. July 8, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  8. "State of the Art – Art of the State". vimeo.de. Cameron Art Museum. November 9, 2015. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  9. Max Meyer (November 9, 2015). "Donald Martiny: Artwork in Progress for the One World Trade Center". vimeo.de. Maxamillian Studio. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  10. "Donald Martiny Artist Paintings Gestures Exhibition Madison Gallery La Jolla". youtube.com. Victor Angelo. October 24, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  11. "Donald Martiny:Divine Material". youtube.com. Alain Chivilò (Art Musa). January 9, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  12. "Donald Martiny Corporeal Tongues. Interview curated by Alain Chivilò". youtube.com. Alain Chivilò. April 11, 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  13. Jon Kalish (October 30, 2015). "A Chapel Hill Artist Paints His Way Into The World Trade Center". wunc.org (North Carolina Public Radio). Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  14. "The artists of One World Trade Center". issuu.com. Durst Organisation. September 13, 2016. pp. 18–25. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  15. Cindi Reed (October 15, 2013). "Seven Questions for Patrick Duffy, Las Vegas Art Museum President. Duffy on curating Life Is Beautiful, art world snobbery and the joy of collecting". vegasseven.com. Archived from the original on January 6, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  16. "New Acquisitions. Donald Martiny: Adi". newcombartmuseumcollection.tulane.edu. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  17. "Crocker Art Museum: Collections". crockerart.org. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  18. "Exhibitions 2014: Donald Martiny: New Paintings". glgarchive.com (George Lawson Gallery – Archive). Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  19. "Donald Martiny: Freeing the Gesture". fwmoa.org (Fort Wayne Museum of Art). Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  20. David A. Clark (July 12, 2015). "Donald Martiny: Gestures at Madison Gallery". theartistsperiscope.com. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  21. "Moving Paint". artsy.com. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  22. "Donald Martiny at the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art". spondergallery.com. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  23. "Exhibitions. Solo Exhibition Donald Martiny". galleriurbane.com. Archived from the original on January 6, 2018. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  24. Edith Newhall (April 3, 2016). "Art gallery exhibitions: Donald Martiny; Emily and Will Brown; April Saul". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  25. "Donald Martiny: Pittura A Macchia". madisongalleries.com. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  26. "Diehl Gallery presents Donald Martiny: New Works – The River Series". diehlgallery.com. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  27. "Donald Martiny New Works: The River Series". artsy.net. Retrieved December 31, 2017Pictures of the works in the exhibition
  28. "Donald Martiny. 25 novembre 2017 – 13 gennaio 2018". arteagallery.it. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  29. Donald Martiny. "Overtures – Undercurrents. Exhibition Preview this Sunday". donaldmartiny.com. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  30. "Donald Martiny – Brushstrokes" (pdf, 3,23 MB). www.galerie-klaus-braun.de. March 3, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  31. "Donald Martiny Epistrophy". artsy.net. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  32. "Donald Martiny: Fu in principio Materia Divina" [Donald Martiny: In the beginning there was Divine Matter]. casadelmantegna.it. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  33. "Past Exhibitions". dimmittcontemporaryart.com. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  34. "Expanding The Gestural Index". www.artsy.net. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  35. "Fundaments". parisconcret.org (Galerie Conret, Paris). Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  36. "25th Anniversary Conny Dietschold Gallery". www.artnet.de. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  37. Donald Martiny. "China Art Projects". donaldmartiny.com. Retrieved January 2, 2018Photos of the works on display
  38. "State of the Art – Art of the State" (PDF, 370,60 KB). cameronartmuseum.org. October 31, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2018List of exhibitors
  39. "2014-2015, Interact: Deconstructing Spectatorship". eastwingbiennal.org. Archived from the original on January 6, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  40. "Myke Venable, David Simpson, Kristen Cliburn, Ruth Pastine, Dirk Rathke: Is it... Monochrome? Colorfield? Or an Object?". gallerysonjaroesch.com. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  41. "Bram Bogat – Pino Pinelli – Donald Martiny". arteagallery.it. Retrieved January 1, 2018The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue, which is out of print
  42. "Made In Paint art exhibition". goldenfoundation.org. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  43. "Plastische Malerei: Pino Pinelli, Donald Martiny und Matthias Lutzeyer". galerie-klaus-braun.de. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  44. "60 Americans". 60americans.com. Archived from the original on January 6, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  45. "It's All about the hue". greenhillnc.org (Greenhill Center for NC Art). Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  46. "It's All About the Hue". flickr.com. Retrieved January 1, 2018Overview of the exhibited works
  47. Helen Dale (November 29, 2016). "Little and Large at Falmouth Art Gallery". falmouthpacket.co.uk (The Packet, Tageszeitung). Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  48. "Remember When This Wasn't Quite How I Remembered It?". artsy.com. Retrieved December 31, 2017With photos of the works of the exhibiting artists
  49. Andrea Hammer (August 25, 2017). "The Enduring Reasons Why: Q&A With Christine Pfister About Pentimenti Gallery's 25th Anniversary". artsphoria.com. Retrieved January 1, 2018With artistic statements of the participating artists
  50. "The Enduring Reasons Why: Celebrating 25". artsy.com. Retrieved December 31, 2017With photos of the works of the exhibiting artists
  51. Ashley Norwood Cooper (April 25, 2017). "Dialectical Praxis: Celia Johnson and Donald Martiny". deliciousline.org. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  52. "Dialectical Praxis: Celia Johnson – Donald Martiny". fredgiampietrogallery.wordpress.com. Retrieved January 1, 2018With photos from the exhibition
  53. "State of the Art – Art of the State" (PDF, 406,44 KB). cameronartmuseum.org. October 23, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2018List of exhibitors
  54. "Roter Faden – Schwarz" [Red Thread – Black]. www.galerie-klaus-braun.de. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  55. "Donald Martiny. Biography". Dimmitt Contemporary Art. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  56. "The Art Box at Northills". visitnorthhills.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  57. "Simply Red. A group show featuring: Chul-Hyun Ahn, Jonathan Leach, Erin Miller, August Muth, Donald Martiny, Ruth Pastine, Ariane Roesch, Mario Reis, Dirk Rathke, Alma Tischler, and Myke Venable". www.gallerysonjaroesch.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
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  59. Anna Furman (November 19, 2015). "One World Trade Center's Lobby Gets Two Massive Brushstrokes". artsy.net. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  60. "Frost Tower Fort Worth Welcomes a New Site-Specific Artwork". www.dfwi.org. November 22, 2020. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
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