Alfredo Martinez
Donald Trump
2016

About the Item

Donald Trump, There's Never A Lone Gunman When You Need One, 2016 Mixed media on collaged paper 70 x 48 inches Alfredo Martinez’ art career began in 1993 at Pat Hearn Gallery, the show was a happening called Skater Angels produced by David Greenberg and Diego Cortez. Afterwards he went on to participate in the seminal Bong Show at Alleged Gallery where artists such as Tom Sachs and Dirk Westphal made elaborate bongs as sculpture. His heights of legitimacy came first when he exhibited in group shows at the P.S. 1 Museum, a MoMa Affiliate (Agent Artist, Generation Z), that same year he had his first career solo show at the Donahue Sosinski gallery in SoHo (this exhibition marks his second solo exhibit with the gallery). In the summer of 2000 Roberta Smith reviewed an exhibition he curated Na’er Do Wells for The New York Times. That same year, a dot-com millionaire by the name of Joshua Harris (in collaboration with Leo Koenig) financed an indoor automatic weapon firing range designed by Martinez for a millennial project entitled Quiet. Martinez is a weapons expert, most recently he spent several years working with Rick Washburn at Weapons Specialists Limited. These were noteworthy achievements for someone who never graduated high school. In a field where academic legitimacy is highly revered, Martinez managed to do remarkably well with only an eleventh-grade education. In this regard, he is a true folk artist, an elitist term synonymous with “outsider”, a derelict.

Creator:
Alfredo Martinez (1967, American)
Creation Year:
2016
Dimensions:
Height: 70 in (177.8 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
Medium:
Cardboard,Mixed Media
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3265158092
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