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Marty Martinez
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Artist: Marty Martinez
URL: www.artworksbymarty.com
Show: Hurricane Katrina Benefit
About the Show
Gallery: Virginia Commonwealth University
Dates: 12/1/05 - 1/3/06
About the show and the artist
The members of the Department of Art Education, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) are in the process of putting together an exhibition of youth, post-secondary student and professional artists' work with the goal of providing symbolic support and concrete assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. I am hoping to enlist you, your students, and professional artist colleagues to be participants in the exhibit.
The preliminary exhibit will be held December 1, 2005 - January 3, 2006 in Richmond, VA. We are working to find additional venues after this date to which the show will travel. Therefore, my second hope is to find out from you whether you would be able to help me find a venue near you that would be willing to display the exhibition and would allow the proceeds of the sales from the exhibition to go to a charity earmarked to help children displaced by the Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast.
The artwork, Black Fish, is a representation of myself as Black Fish. As I travel, what I observe through varied channels, levees, waterways, and the depths of our oceans, and it’s troubling to me.
The twisted fishing pole represents man devoted to sport and mechanics. The neglect and disregard of what may go extinct, but confident. You can replace anything, like a mechanical fish.
The observatory searching the heavens for answers, forgetting the clusters of celestial beauty of boundless space that was created for our enjoyment. Yet, mankind would rather search for other places to live.
I’m Black Fish floating idle, watching, waiting, tasting the chemicals that stunt the very design of its occupants. Listening to the squalls pound the shores, but hoping for the calm as the storms stir the flavor of my waters. As I travel, and what I observe through varied channels, levees, waterways, and the depths of our oceans, and it’s troubling to me.
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