Martin & Muñoz

Martin & Muñoz are Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz, artists who have collaborated to create and photograph dystopian sculptures.

Biography

Walter Martin was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1953. He received his B.A. from Old Dominion University in Virginia and his M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University.[1]

Paloma Muñoz was born in Madrid, Spain in 1965.[2] She is the daughter of Spanish artist Paloma Navares and sister of film maker and producer David Muñoz.

Martin and Muñoz have been professional and personal partners since soon after they met in 1993. They live in Milford, Pennsylvania and maintain a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They work summers at a family retreat in Spain [3]

Work

Martin & Muñoz are best known for their sculptures and photographs of sculptures contrasting pristine settings with foreboding or grisly scenes. Their most recent work are the Travelers and Islands series.

Martin & Muñoz provide the cover and interior art for the New Pornographers' album Together.

Solo exhibitions

Collections

Their work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Málaga, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN. They are also represented in the private collections of other prominent institutions, including the Progressive Art Collection, Bloomberg L.P. and 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, KT.

Galleries

The artists are represented by P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York , and Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art in Salzburg and Vienna

Further reading

Martin, Walter; Muñoz, Paloma & Jonathan Lethem (2008), Travelers, New York, New York: Aperture Foundation, ISBN 1-59711-073-6 

McGee, Celia (2008), "Aesthetic Heft, Sized for a Snow Globe", The New York Times 

Clark, Tim (2009), "Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, Travelers", 1000 Words 4 (Spring) 

Somerstein, Rachel (2006), "The Weather Inside is Frightful", ArtNews 105 (Number 5): 122–125 

McCormick, Carlo (2003), "Elegy in White: Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz", Aperture Foundation 173 (Winter): 19–31 

Kimmelman, Michael (August 8, 2003), "A Seasonal Migration of Cultural Scope", The New York Times 

Vogel, Carol (March 2, 2001), "Inside Art. Don't Feed the Birds", The New York Times 

Raynor, Vivien (February 23, 1997), "From a Partnership of Elements to a show of Playfulness", The New York Times 

References

  1. ↑ www.martin-munoz.com
  2. ↑ www.martin-munoz.com
  3. ↑ New York Times, January 6, 2008, Arts, page 19.McGee, Celia (January 6, 2008), "Aesthetic Heft, Sized for a Snow Globe", The New York Times (New York, NY), p. Arts 19
  4. ↑ http://www.lsa.umich.edu/humin
  5. ↑ John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WE
  6. ↑ MTA, Arts for Transit, NY

External links

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