And These Natural Things
Works by Melissa Martinez
By Jennifer Barton, Jason Chakravarty and Jennifer Frias SweeneyArt
Category: Arts & Photography
Tags: Contemporary Art, Fine Art, California Museum of Photography, Video Art, Video Projections, Sound Installations, UCR ARTSblock, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Jennifer Barton, Jason Chakravarty, Jennifer Frias, Shane Shukis, Jonathan Green, Melissa Martinez, Organic Materials, Multimedia installation, Poisonous Plants, Art, Arizona, Sculpture, Riverside, Nature, CRTs
And These Natural Things marks the first, Southern California solo exhibition for Melissa Martinez who has risen to prominence in the art scene with works that allude to the desert’s natural resources with familiar urban landscapes. A native of Chicago, Martinez’s work confronts and narrates her outlook at nature’s intrusion on her current surroundings of Arizona, where she currently resides and works. The exhibition includes isolated projections with an orchestrated sound installation and sculptural video displays each documenting nature’s volatile state of eeriness, celebration, disembodiment and melancholy.
Square 7x7 inches (18x18 cm) 30 pages
Published: April 21, 2008
