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Donald Martiny (born 1953 in Schenectady, New York) is an American artist. His abstract paintings are related to both action painting and Abstract expressionism.




Life


Donald Martiny studied from 1977 to 1980 at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. From 1980 to 1983 he was a student at the Art Students League of New York. At the same time he attended courses on art at the New York University. From 2007 to 2009 he continued his education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He lives and works in Ivoryton, Connecticut.
In 2015 Martiny received a scholarship as an Artist in Residence of the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts in New Berlin, New York State and was represented in the annual exhibition of the artists there. Also in 2015, Martiny was invited to produce two large works for the One World Trade Center, which are permanently exhibited there. Martiny has lectured at Cornell University and at the Ackland Art Museum. There, in 2016, he conducted a public discussion on the painter Hans Hoffmann in the context of an exhibition of his works.




Work


In an interview, Martiny has been called a gestural abstractionist. This term refers to a method of how the painter applies color to an object: "The idea was that the artist would physically act out his inner impulses, and that something of his emotion or state of mind would be read by the viewer in the resulting paint marks." (Tate Galleries) This technique is also known as Action painting.
Martiny describes his work as follows: "My paintings are actual authentic gestures. These brushstrokes are very much me and I want to be present in the works as honestly and authentically as I can be. They are a record of my physicality at a specific point in time."
Martiny does not paint on canvases or rectangular backgrounds. His works show the immediately frozen brushstroke, as Martiny designed it in his movements. He had to experiment for years with the composition of the paint, which should be liquid enough to reproduce the brush stroke well and at the same time be so durable in a dry state that the work can be mounted on the wall without breaking. The finished work is reinforced by an aluminium plate cut to the exact dimensions of the brush stroke as a base. The paintings then look like a relief on the wall.
The paint Martiny uses consists of a mixture of water-based polymers enriched with pigments. Sometimes he stretches this mixture with so-called microbubbles, which ensure that the paint looks light.
In contrast to the working method of other artists of Action painting, Martinys works are not only spontaneous. He first creates a sketch in miniature and, if he likes it, he produces the work in ever larger dimensions. He always works on the floor because this situation gives him the greatest freedom in his brushstrokes. He makes his own brushes, and sometimes he also takes his hands to express all his current emotions in the work. Martiny on his works: "Brushstrokes are dances trapped in paintings".
In November 2022, Donald Martiny designed the set for a dance performance by Amy Hall Garner of the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, titled Somewhere in the Middle: "Donald Martiny’s set – hanging brushstroke pieces that show dimension through the thick, sometimes bumpy paint texture – changes in color and shape throughout the work, matching the liveliness of Mark Eric’s bright costumes (briefs and bras overlaid with transparent fabric).




Videography


2013: Video of the Biennale Non-Objective, Le Pont-de-Claix, France (2013): 10′ 14″
2015: Video about the exhibition Donald Martiny: Freeing the Gesture, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, United States (Mai 2014): 09′ 26″
2015: Video about the exhibition State of the Art – Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum, United States (2015): 05′ 18″
2016: Video on the works of Donald Martiny at the World Trade Center 02′ 32″
2021: Video of the works of Donald Martiny in the group–exhibition Color Theory, Bentley-Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, United States 01′ 20″
2023 (2019): Video about the exhibition Donald Martiny: Fu in principio Materia Divina ("In the beginning there was Divine Material"), Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, Italy (2019): 08′ 16″




Audio


2015: A Chapel Hill Artist Paints His Way Into The World Trade Center




Works in collections (selection)


Art Collection of the One World Trade Center, New York City, United States
Grahm Gund Family Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Patrick Duffy, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, USA
Stadt Le Pont-de-Claix, Frankreich
Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, United States
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix




Solo exhibitions (selection)


2014: Donald Martiny: Freeing the Gesture, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, United States
2016: Donald Martiny Paintings. Freeing the Gesture, Alden B Dow Museum of Art and Science, Midland, Michigan, United States
2017: Donald Martiny: Pittura a Macchia, Madison Gallery, La Jolla, United States
2017: Donald Martiny New Works: The River Series, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, United States
2017: Donald Martiny, Artea Gallery, Milan, Italy
2017: Overtones – Undercurrents, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, USA
2018: Donald Martiny: Pinselstriche, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
2019: Donald Martiny: Divine Material, Museum Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, Italy
2019: Donald Martiny: Expanding the gestural Index, Pentimenti Galerie, Philadelphia, United States
2019: Donald Martiny: Fu in principio Materia Divina (Donald Martiny: In the begin there was Divine Matter), Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, Italy
2021: Donald Martiny: Jacopo Tintoretto: Pathways, Scala Contarini del Bovolo, Venice, Italy




Group exhibitions (selection)


2013: Fundaments, Galerie Concret, Paris, France
2013: Pourquoi pas – Why not. 2e Biennale internationale d’art non objectif, Le Pont de Claix, France
2014: 25 Years Conny Dietzschold Galerie, Conny Dietzschold Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2014: 7 x Farbe pur. Monochrome Malerei, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
2014: China Art Projects, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China
2015: State of the Art – Art of the State Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, United States
2015: Interact: Deconstructing Spectatorship: East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
2015: Is it...Monochrome, Colorfield, or Object?, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, United States
2015: Pino Pinelli, Donald Martiny, Bram Bogart, ArteA Gallery, Milan, Italy
2016: Made in Paint: Golden. Artworks of the 2015 artists in residence, Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, United States
2016: Plastische Malerei: Pino Pinelli, Donald Martiny und Matthias Lutzeyer, Klaus Braun Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2016: 60 Americans, MakeShift Museum, Los Angeles, United States
2016: It’s all about the hue, GreenHill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, United States
2016: All Things Great and Small, Falmouth Art Museum, Falmouth, Cornwall, Cornwall, England
2017: Remember when this wasn’t quite how I remembered it?, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
2017: The Enduring Reasons Why: Celebrating 25, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
2017: Dialectical Praxis – Celia Johnson & Donald Martiny, Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, United States
2017: State of the Art – Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, United States
2018: Roter Faden – Schwarz, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
2018/2019: Emergence, Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
2018/2019: Art Window: Donald Martiny, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
2019: Simply Red, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, Texas
2020: 2020 Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
2021: Color Theory, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, United States
2022: Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy (In the framework of the program accompanying the Biennale)




Art in public places


2015: Two works in the One World Trade Center: Lenape (named after the Indian Tribe Lenape which used to populate large parts of today's states New York and New Jersey) and Unami (named after the now extinct language of Lenapes).
2019: Hugin + Munin (named as a reference to Huginn and Muninn in the Frost Tower Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas




Further reading


Martiny, Donald; Stecker, Raimund; Viglialoro, Luca (2021). Donald Martiny – Point and counterpoint. Punkt und Kontrapunkt. Freiburg im Breisgau: Modo. ISBN 978-3868332940.
ArteA Gallery, ed. (2016). Bram Bogart, Pino Pinelli, Donald Martiny (in English and Italian). Milan: ArteA Gallery.
Carter Ratcliff, Charles A. Shepard III, Deborah Swallow, Lawrence J. Wheeler (2016). Donald Martiny: Monumental Gestures: Paintings form 2013–2016. Chapel Hill: Donald Martiny. ISBN 978-0692351277.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Donald Martiny, Donald Kuspit, Noah Becker (2019). Donald Martiny Open Paintings 2019. A collection of third-party-texts on the artist, among others by Donald Kuspit and Noah Becker.). New York, Vienna: strudelmedia design.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Liza Roberts (2022). Art of the State: North Carolina. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-6124-7.




External links


Donald Martiny at artfacts.net
Donald Martiny at kunstaspekte.de
Webseite Donald Martiny
"Donald Martiny Talks About His Paintings With Noah Becker". whitehotmagazine.com. March 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2019.




References

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• Donald Martiny
• Artwork at the World Trade Center (2001–present)
• Martiny (surname)
• Phoenix Art Museum
• One World Trade Center
• The Tower (Fort Worth, Texas)
• Art Students League of New York
• List of School of Visual Arts people
• Schenectady, New York
• Lyrical abstraction