Donald Martiny
{{Short description|American painter (born 1953)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Donald Martiny
| image = Donald Martiny blue wall painting.jpg
| caption = Donald Martiny working in his studio
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1953}}
| birth_place = Schenectady, New York, United States
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| movement = Action painting, abstract expressionism
| known_for = Painting
| education = Art Students League of New York
New York University
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
| website = {{URL|DonaldMartiny.com}}
| spouse = Celia Johnson
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Donald Martiny (born 1953) is an American visual artist, known for sculptural paintings.{{Cite web |last=Irven |first=Donovan |date=November 2020 |title=Disclosures: Donald Martiny, or Figures Without Ground |url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/martiny-or-figures-without-ground/4769 |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art |language=en}} His works are related to both action painting and abstract expressionism. He lives in Connecticut.{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Donald Martiny "Urpflanze" |url=https://artinamericaguide.com/event/donald-martiny-urpflanze/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=Art in America Guide |language=en-US}}
Life
Donald Martiny was born in 1953, in Schenectady, New York.
Martiny studied from 1977 to 1980 at the School of Visual Arts in New York City; and 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, Martiny continued his education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.{{cite web |url=https://www.madisongalleries.com/artist/donald-martiny|title=Donald Martiny |publisher=madisongalleries.com |access-date=2013-09-15}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=June 2025}}
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,{{cite web |url=http://www.goldenfoundation.org/residency/past-residents |title=Golden Foundation: Past Residents 2015 |work=Golden Foundation |publisher=goldenfooundation. org |access-date=2018-01-03 |last1=Foundation |first1=Golden }} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenfoundation.org/donald-martiny-upcoming-shows-in-march |title=2016: Donald Martiny, upcoming shows in March |website=goldenfoundation.org |date=March 2, 2016 |accessdate=2022-03-12}}
Work
In an interview, Martiny has been called a gestural abstractionist.{{cite web| author=Isabel Wong |title=Art Talk: Proves There's Power Behind Every Brushstroke |url=https://hk.asiatatler.com/life/Art-Talk-Donald-Martiny-Proves-There-s-Power-Behind-Every-Brushstroke |publisher=hk.asiatatler.com |date=2017-11-17 |access-date=2018-01-16}} 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){{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/g/gestural |title=Art Term: Gestural |publisher=tate.org |access-date=2018-01-04}} 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."
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.
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".
In November 2022, Donald Martiny designed the set for a dance performance by Amy Hall Garner of the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, titled Somewhere in the Middle: "Donald Martiny’s set – hanging brushstroke pieces that show dimension through the thick, sometimes bumpy paint texture – changes in color and shape throughout the work, matching the liveliness of Mark Eric’s bright costumes (briefs and bras overlaid with transparent fabric).{{cite web |author=Gia Kourlas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/arts/dance/paul-taylor-new-era-season.html |title=Dancing at Paul Taylor, a New Generation Finds Its Footing |website=The New York Times |date=2022-11-04 |access-date=2022-11-09}}
Audio
- 2015: A Chapel Hill Artist Paints His Way Into The World Trade Center{{cite web |author=Jon Kalish |url=http://wunc.org/post/chapel-hill-artist-paints-his-way-world-trade-center#stream/0 |title=A Chapel Hill Artist Paints His Way Into The World Trade Center |website=wunc.org (North Carolina Public Radio) |date=2015-10-30 |access-date=2018-01-01}}
Collections
- Art collection of the One World Trade Center, New York City, United States{{cite book |last=Edelman Arts |url=https://issuu.com/trafficcreativemanagement/docs/mm_artists_final_9_13 |title=The Artists of One World Trade Center |date=2016-09-13 |publisher= |pages=18–25 |access-date=2017-12-26 |via=issuu.com}}
- Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States{{cite web |title=Donald Martiny: Adi. Sculpture |url=http://newcombartmuseumcollection.tulane.edu/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20any%20%22Donald%20Martiny%22&sort=9 |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=Newcomb Art Museum Collection |publisher=Tulane}}
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, United States{{Cite web |title=Untitled, Donald Martiny (b.1953) |url=https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/untitled-202119 |website=Amon Carter Museum of American Art}}
Exhibitions
= Solo exhibitions =
- 2014: Donald Martiny: Freeing the Gesture, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, United States{{cite web |date=2020-05-26 |title=Donald Martiny discusses his artwork at FWMoA |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1zBxNgldwo |accessdate=2022-03-14 |publisher=fwmoa.org (Fort Wayne Museum of Art) |via=YouTube}}
- 2016: Donald Martiny, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States{{Cite news |date=2016-04-03 |title=Painting and photographs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-painting-and-p/173855854/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |pages=H06 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- 2017: Donald Martiny New Works: The River Series, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming, United States{{Cite news |date=2017-07-19 |title=Martiny's Works Hang Free of Canvas |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/jackson-hole-news-and-guide-martinys-wo/173856141/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=Jackson Hole News and Guide |pages=89 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=2017-08-02 |title=Martiny to color Diehl over Mendelssohn cornerstone |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/jackson-hole-news-and-guide-martiny-to-c/173855564/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=Jackson Hole News and Guide |pages=74 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- 2018: Donald Martiny: Pinselstriche, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany{{cite book |title=Donald Martiny: Pinselstriche |publisher=Klaus Braun |year=2018 |place=Stuttgart}}
- 2019: Donald Martiny: Freeing the Gesture, Historic City Hall Arts and Cultural Center, 1001 Ryan St., Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States{{Cite news |date=2019-02-01 |title=Art exhibits |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/american-press-art-exhibits/173856909/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=American Press |pages=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=January 4, 2018 |title=Opening Jan. 12: Three Different Exhibits Under One Roof |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/american-press-opening-jan-12-three-di/173857113/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=American Press |pages=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- 2019: Donald Martiny: Praxis and Poesta, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming, United States{{Cite news |date=2019-07-17 |title=Brushes with genius at Diehl Gallery |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/jackson-hole-news-and-guide-brushes-with/173855183/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=Jackson Hole News and Guide |pages=95 |via=Newspapers.com}}
= Group exhibitions =
- 2013: Ice Water Flyswatter, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States{{Cite news |date=2013-08-25 |title=Steven Baris navigates a new venue |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-steven-baris-n/173856628/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |pages=H05 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite web |last=Schwartz |first=C. |date=August 8, 2013 |title=Six artists with summery abstractions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid |url=https://knightfoundation.org/articles/ice-water-flyswatter-tiger-strikes-asteroid/ |access-date= |website=Knight Foundation |language=en-US}}
- 2015: State of the Art – Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, United States{{cite web |title=Past Exhibitions 2015: State of the Art – Art of the State |url=https://www.cameronartmuseum.org/index.php?c=past-exhibitions#2015 |accessdate=2022-03-15 |website=Cameron Art Museum}}
- 2015: Interact: Deconstructing Spectatorship: East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
- 2016: Plastische Malerei: Pino Pinelli, Donald Martiny und Matthias Lutzeyer, Klaus Braun Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany{{cite web |title=Plastische Malerei: Matthias Lutzeyer, Donald Martiny, Pino Pinelli |url=https://www.portalkunstgeschichte.de/kalender/termin/plastische_malerei_____matthias_-19874.html |accessdate=2022-03-15 |website=portalkunstgeschichte.de}}
- 2016: Great & Small: A Holiday Miniature Show, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming, United States{{Cite news |last=Dahlby |first=Erica |date=2016-12-21 |title='Great & Small' show opens at Diehl gallery |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/jackson-hole-news-and-guide-great-sma/173856403/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=Jackson Hole News and Guide |pages=87 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- 2016: 60 Americans, MakeShift Museum, Los Angeles, California, United States{{cite book |last1=Sanders |first1=Terrence |title=60 Americans |last2=Goodman |first2=Jonathan |last3=Sax |first3=Sol Sax |publisher=Artvoices |year=2016 |isbn=978-0692515815 |place=Los Angeles}}
- 2016: It’s All About the Hue, GreenHill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States{{Cite news |date=2016-02-04 |title=Artists offer wildly different takes on color |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-artists-offer-wildly-dif/173855367/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=News and Record |pages=41 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=2016-03-24 |title=Exhibition about color ends today at GreenHill |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-exhibition-about-color-e/173857223/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=News and Record |pages=41 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- 2017: The Enduring Reasons Why: Celebrating 25, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States{{cite web |date=2017-08-23 |title=Pentimenti Gallery Celebrates 25 Years In Philadelphia With "The Enduring Reasons Why" Group Show, Saturday, September 16, 2017 |url=https://www.mapanare.us/art/pentimenti-gallery-celebrates-25-years-in-philadelphia-with-the-enduring-reasons-why-group-show |accessdate=2022-03-16 |website=mapanre.us}}{{cite web |title=The Enduring Reasons Why: Celebrating 25 |url=https://www.artsy.net/show/pentimenti-gallery-the-enduring-reasons-why-celebrating-25 |access-date=2017-12-31 |website=artsy.com |postscript=With photos of the works of the exhibiting artists}}
- 2017: Dialectical Praxis – Celia Johnson & Donald Martiny, Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, United States{{cite web |author=Ashley Norwood Cooper |date=2017-04-25 |title=Dialectical Praxis: Celia Johnson and Donald Martiny |url=https://deliciousline.org/review/24 |access-date=2018-01-01 |website=Delicious Line Inc.}}
- 2017: State of the Art – Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, United States{{cite web |date=2018-01-17 |title=State of the Art –Art of the State Exhibit at Cameron Art Museum |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee2VQNbt7Jg |accessdate=2022-03-16 |website=North Caroline Weekend on PBS NC}}
- 2020: 2020 Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States{{cite web |date=February 25, 2021 |title=Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting |url=https://ncartmuseum.org/exhibition/front-burner-highlights-in-contemporary-north-carolina-painting |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=North Carolina Museum of Art}}
- 2021: Color Theory, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, United States{{Cite news |date=2021-03-02 |title=Highlights of Art Detour 2021 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-arizona-republic-highlights-of-art-d/173857441/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |work=The Arizona Republic |pages=C3 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Public art
- 2015: Two works in the One World Trade Center: Lenape (named after the Indian Tribe Lenape which used to populate large parts of today's states New York and New Jersey) and Unami (named after the now extinct language of Lenapes).{{cite web |last=Kalish |first=Jon |date=2015 |title=A Chapel Hill Artist Paints His Way Into The World Trade Center |url=https://www.wunc.org/arts-culture/2015-10-30/a-chapel-hill-artist-paints-his-way-into-the-world-trade-center |website=North Carolina Public Radio |location=Chapel Hill |access-date=2025-06-08}}{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/trafficcreativemanagement/docs/mm_artists_final_9_13 |publisher=Durst Organisation |title=The artists of One World Trade Center |website=issuu.com |pages=18–25 |date=2016-09-13 |access-date=2017-12-26}}
- 2019: Hugin + Munin (named as a reference to Huginn and Muninn in the Frost Tower Fort Worth,{{cite web |url=https://www.dfwi.org/item/frost-tower-fort-worth-welcomes-a-new-site-specific-artwork |title=Frost Tower Fort Worth Welcomes a New Site-Specific Artwork |work=www.dfwi.org |date=2020-11-22 |access-date=2021-01-17}} Fort Worth, Texas
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Martiny |first1=Donald |last2=Stecker |first2=Raimund |last3=Viglialoro |first3=Luca |title=Donald Martiny – Point and counterpoint. Punkt und Kontrapunkt |publisher=Modo |place=Freiburg im Breisgau |year=2021 |isbn=978-3868332940}}
- {{cite book |editor=ArteA Gallery |title=Bram Bogart, Pino Pinelli, Donald Martiny |publisher=ArteA Gallery |place=Milan |date=2016 |language=en, italian}}
- {{cite book |author=Carter Ratcliff, Charles A. Shepard III, Deborah Swallow, Lawrence J. Wheeler |title=Donald Martiny: Monumental Gestures: Paintings form 2013–2016 |publisher=Donald Martiny |place=Chapel Hill |year=2016 |isbn=978-0692351277}}
- {{cite book |author=Donald Martiny, Donald Kuspit, Noah Becker |title=Donald Martiny Open Paintings 2019. A collection of third-party-texts on the artist, among others by Donald Kuspit and Noah Becker.) |publisher=strudelmedia design |place=New York, Vienna |year=2019}}
- {{cite book |author=Liza Roberts |title=Art of the State: North Carolina |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |place=Chapel Hill |year=2022 |isbn= 978-1-4696-6124-7}}
External links
- [https://www.donaldmartiny.com/ Official website]
- {{cite web |url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/his-paintings-with-noah-becker/4196 |title=Donald Martiny Talks About His Paintings With Noah Becker |website=Whitehot |date=March 2019 |access-date=}}
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