
Mark Anthony Martinez, MFA
Visual Artist
Artist Statement
I’m a conceptual artist whose bulk of their practice revolves around a project spanning a multitude of media and tones revolving most broadly around themes of racial identity. Wherein, a majority of my works express my own relation as a visibly brown individual.Through my art; I employ self-portraiture, text and oblique references to the white body as it exists as a disembodied ideal — challenging the western notion of white as “neutral.”Although this type of work encompasses a majority of my exhibited artwork, there are other subjects I’m eager to explore. Subjects such as labor, science fiction, the erotic and ecological conservation. However, these next creative endeavors come with the understanding that all of my work is created from a space that fully recognizes that I am a person of color.
art/worker, video performance, 2023
i did it to myself, 2023
i did it to myself, install view, photo cred Luis M Garza, 2023
i did it to myself, install view, photo cred Luis M Garza, 2023
i did it to myself, install view, photo cred Luis M Garza, 2023
SPECTRE, video installation, the classic theatre, San Antonio, 2023
SPECTRE, video installation, the classic theatre, San Antonio, 2023
Installation View, Acrylic paintings on view at Carbon Bloom, San Antonio, 2022
"I want my cake and I want to fuck it too," acrylic on vinyl, Carbon Bloom, San Antonio, 2022
"Idyllic Landscape," acrylic on vinyl, Carbon Bloom, San Antonio, 2022
installation view at FREIGHT gallery & studios, as ft. in "Images of Power," co-curated by Alana Coates, 2018"
"(off) white power," neon courtesy of the "King of Neon", 2017
installation view at Mexic-Arte, photo credit Andrea Rampone, 2017
"No New White Friends," neon courtesy of the "King of Neon", photo credit Andrea Rampone, 2017
"Flesh wound," foamboard cut out, photo credit Luis M. Garza, 2016
"White Out," self portrait digital collage, 2014
Brown Sugar, performance documentation, 2013