Martin & Muñoz

Martin & Muñoz are Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz, artists who have collaborated to create and photograph dystopian sculptures.

Biography

Walter Martin was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1953. He received his B.A. from Old Dominion University in Virginia and his M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University.^[1]

Paloma Muñoz was born in Madrid, Spain in 1965.^[2] She is the daughter of Spanish artist Paloma Navares and sister of film maker and producer David Muñoz.

Martin and Muñoz have been professional and personal partners since soon after they met in 1993. They live in Milford, Pennsylvania and maintain a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They work summers at a family retreat in Spain ^[3]

Work

Martin & Muñoz are best known for their sculptures and photographs of sculptures contrasting pristine settings with foreboding or grisly scenes. Their most recent work are the Travelers and Islands series.

Martin & Muñoz provide the cover and interior art for the New Pornographers' album Together.

Solo exhibitions

• 2011, "White Nights", Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ^[4]
• 2009, "Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz: Wayward Bound", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI ^[5]
• 2008, "Buried 'till Spring", Galeria Isabel Hurley, Málaga, Spain
• 2008, "Objects and Photographs", Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ.
• 2008, "Islands", P.P.O.W, New York, NY
• 2007, "Photographs", Cerealart Project Room, Philadelphia, PA
• 2007, "Secrets Sleep In Winter Clothes", MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
• 2007, "White Out", ARCO Projects, Madrid, Spain
• 2005, "Cold Front", P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
• 2004, "The Frigid Zone", Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria
• 2004, "Travelers", Museo de la Universidad de Alicante, Spain
• 2004, "Travelers", Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 2003, "Travelers", P·P·O·W, New York, NY
• 2003, "Travelers", Moriarty Gallery, Madrid, Spain
• 2001, "A Gathering", a permanent installation of 181 bronze birds at Canal Street Station on the A, C and E lines, New York, NY ^[6]
• 2001, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
• 2000, "Loss of Experience", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
• 1999, "Dis", Momenta, Brooklyn, New York
• 1999, Espacio Caja Burgos, Burgos, Spain
• 1998, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
• 1997, Alejandro Sales Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• 1996, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
• 1996, Moriarty Gallery, Madrid, Spain
• 1994, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

Collections

Their work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Málaga, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN. They are also represented in the private collections of other prominent institutions, including the Progressive Art Collection, Bloomberg L.P. and 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, KT.

Galleries

The artists are represented by P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York [2], Galeria Moriarty in Madrid [3] and Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art in Salzburg and Vienna [4]

Further reading

Martin, Walter; Muñoz, Paloma & Jonathan Lethem (2008), Travelers, New York, New York: Aperture Foundation, ISBN 1597110736 

Clark, Tim (2009), "Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, Travelers", 1000 Words 4 (Spring), http://www.1000wordsmag.com/ 

Somerstein, Rachel (2006), "The Weather Inside is Frightful", ArtNews 105 (Number 5): 122–125, http://artnews.com/issues/issue.asp?id=10422 

McCormick, Carlo (2003), "Elegy in White: Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz", Aperture Foundation 173 (Winter): 19–31, http://www.aperture.org/aperture-173.html/ 

Kimmelman, Michael (August 8, 2003), "A Seasonal Migration of Cultural Scope", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/08/arts/art-review-a-seasonal-migration-of-cultural-scope.html?scp=7&sq=walter%20martin%20paloma%20munoz&st=cse&pagewanted=1 

Vogel, Carol (March 2, 2001), "Inside Art. Don't Feed the Birds", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/02/books/inside-art.html?scp=12&sq=paloma%20munoz&st=cse 

Raynor, Vivien (February 23, 1997), "From a Partnership of Elements to a show of Playfulness", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/nyregion/from-a-partnership-of-elements-to-a-show-of-playfulness.html?scp=14&sq=paloma%20munoz&st=cse 

References

1. ^ www.martin-munoz.com
2. ^ www.martin-munoz.com
3. ^ New York Times, January 6, 2008, Arts, page 19.McGee, Celia (January 6, 2008), "Aesthetic Heft, Sized for a Snow Globe", The New York Times (New York, NY): Arts 19, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/arts/design/06mcge.html 
4. ^ [1]
5. ^ John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WE
6. ^ MTA, Arts for Transit, NY

External links

• Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz
• P P O W Gallery
• Galería Isabel Hurley
• Aperture Foundation
• Public Art Fund
• MTA Arts for Transit

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