Adam Martinakis

The Remains of a Memory

2013

Carrie Marill House Plants (Suite of 4), 2020 archival pigment print 14" x 11" (each) paper size (suite of 4) Edition of 10 Carrie Marill is a meticulous...

Kenny Schachter "Pay Nothing". Archival digital print on wove paper. Published in 2020. Edition of 60. Hand signed and numbered by the artist, verso. ‘At the height of Covid, various activist groups arose to protect artists and others from unlawful evictions for non-payment of rent due to their lack of earning capacity by an economy that all but ground to a halt—other than for the multinationals that always seem to prosper in times of crisis. One such grassroots advocacy initiative in April of 2020, was CANTPAYMAY which I spotted on artist Nicole Eisenman’s Instagram feed by way of a poster she created which proclaimed: “RENT STRIKE! STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THOUSANDS OF NEW YORKERS ON RENT STRIKE DURING #CANTPAYMAY. WITH MILLIONS OF NEW YORKERS OUT OF WORK, WE CAN AND MUST #CANCELRENT. SIGN THE RENT STRIKE PLEDGE TO JOIN THE MOVEMENT!” Pay Nothing is an appropriation of Ed Ruscha’s 2003 painting Pay Nothing Until April; though Ruscha attempts to disclaim meaning in his text works, it clearly references the loaded notion of having to pay-up in April, which is when both State and Federal taxes are owed across the country, as all US taxpayers are only painfully all too aware. “Says Ruscha: ‘I’m empty headed in many ways, and don’t know why I follow what I follow. Like most people, I operate on an automatic mode, and everything is an involuntary reflex. Logic flies out of the window when you’re making a picture, at least it does with me. And thank God it does.’” @tate In the context of the Covid pandemic, Pay Nothing signifies the fact that if a population is deprived of the means to earn a living, we still must eat and have a roof over our heads to feed and shelter ourselves and families. For, if we don’t have the ready capacity to provide, as Malcom X...

Print #2 edition of 10 "I have always been interested in how we are enticed into the picture plane - how an image can create a tension between static and dynamic, flatness and space...

Print #2 edition of 10 "I have always been interested in how we are enticed into the picture plane - how an image can create a tension between static and dynamic, flatness and space...

José Parlá The Founders, 2021 Signed, dated and numbered by the artist on a label that will be affixed to the reverse of each print. Archival pigment print ...

RETNA Sacred Dance Of Memories, 2017 Signed, named and numbered by the artist. Lithograph 4 colors printed with Marinoni Machines and hand cut on White BFK Rives 270 g. 82 x 68 cm Ed...