Feliz Cumpleaños Boyle Heights (Study - Dress)

Artist: Martinez, Patrick

Date: 2020

Medium: Acrylic paint, airbrush, and ceramic on wood panel and gold mirror plex

Artwork Dimensions: 26 x 20 x 3 in.

County Department: Arts and Culture

Artwork Site: Civic Art Storage

About the Artist: Patrick Martinez maintains a diverse practice that includes mixed-media landscape paintings, neon sign pieces, cake paintings, and his Pee Chee series of appropriative works. The landscape paintings are abstractions composed of Los Angeles surface content, e.g. distressed stucco, spray paint, window security bars, vinyl signage, ceramic tile, neon sign elements, and other recognizable materials. These works serve to evoke place and socioeconomic position, and further unearth sites of personal, civic, and cultural loss. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally. Martinez works and lives in Los Angeles.