Mario Martinez, Yaqui Flashback II. Mario Martinez, Contemporary Native Art Collection
Mario Martinez
1953-
Yaqui
Date
1997
Medium Specific
Poster
Publisher
Garfinkel Publications, Vancouver BC.
Classification
Poster
Dimensions
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
Accession Number
2017.10.12.97
Memo / Artist Statement
“My work is a result of an intuitive artistic process. I feel my work combines the great abstract tradition in Western art and a personal sense of ‘Yaquiness.’ When I say ‘Yaquiness,’ I mean ancient and modern Yaqui culture, the Great Sonoran Desert, and diverse American popular culture.”
Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Monrovia, Liberia, 2018 (https://art.state.gov/publications/)
Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Monrovia, Liberia, 2018 (https://art.state.gov/publications/)
Biography
Mario Martinez is a Yaqui Indian from the Penjamo settlement in Scottsdale, Arizona. After an early art career in San Francisco, he moved to New York City in 2002. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, and a master of fine arts degree from the San
Francisco Art Institute, California. In 2000, he was a visiting professor of art at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and in 2001 he received the Native Artist in Residence Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian. In 2005, Martinez completed a 22-foot mural commission for the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. His work has been shown in New York City at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and in Japan, among other locations.
Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Monrovia, Liberia, 2018 (https://art.state.gov/publications/)
Francisco Art Institute, California. In 2000, he was a visiting professor of art at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and in 2001 he received the Native Artist in Residence Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian. In 2005, Martinez completed a 22-foot mural commission for the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. His work has been shown in New York City at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and in Japan, among other locations.
Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Monrovia, Liberia, 2018 (https://art.state.gov/publications/)
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