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Following a recent show at the Tucson Museum of Art, Patrick Martinez returns to his hometown to present a new body of work titled Promised Land at Charlie James Gallery. The latest series is inspired by the visual language of East Los Angeles, in particular, the many murals adorned across community centers, schools, corner markets and liquor stores. Within each composition, the artist sources an array of iconography tracing back to major Mexican figures and mythological depictions from Nahua, Aztec and Maya cultures. While some artists merely use symbols to depict a figure or idea, Martinez fully transports viewers to the very locations he seeks to expound on through multilayered compositions fully equipped with faux stone, tarps, ceramic elements and neon signage. Martinez goes a step fu...

Bruised banana. Barcelona in Kappa. That United away kit. Over the past 30 years, the colors and patterns of football shirts have become just as iconic as the clubs themselves. Lev Rosenbush is an artist, model and athlete who is one of the many people who took inspiration and recently created a series of work titled Football and Fandom Reimagined: A Ceramic Exploration. Based between London and Brooklyn, Lev first explored pottery while simultaneously playing goalkeeper in high school. He would carry the passion for both in college as the intersection of football, fine art and fashion continued to blend. “Classic football shirts shape soccer culture, as well as global street fashion,” Lev said in a statement. “Staggeringly loud patterns plastered across club jerseys, such as those referen...

Almine Rech London unveiled a new solo exhibition by acclaimed American artist, Nathaniel Mary Quinn. SCENES presents a suite of new paintings centered around his love for movies and the “thematic nature,” as Quinn calls it, pertaining to the narratives discussed via Instagram and YouTube. Quinn is well-known for creating bold collage-like figures that conflate art history, magazine cutouts, along with his fragmented memories growing up in Chicago’s housing projects. His process is not necessarily carried out by “consciously duplicating any given scene or narrative,” per the artist, “but instead is governed by a present, subconscious, and visceral response to visions that reflect memories and ideas as they unfold in the very making of each piece, allowing for further discovery,” Quinn adde...

British artist Damien Hirst is currently throwing thousands of works into fire pits at his Newport Street Gallery space in London, as the finale to his “Currency” exhibition. The somewhat eyebrow-raising performance is taking place now as part of the show’s overarching concept. In detail, Hirst wanted to offer a commentary on the ownership of digital and physical artworks, and as such, launched Currency in July 2021. It encompassed a collection of 10,000 NFTs and 10,000 corresponding original artworks. These were handcrafted in 2016 from enamel paint on handmade paper, and have been numbered, titled, stamped, and signed by the artist on the back – with no color repeated twice. Each title, such as “Love Still Burns” has been generated through machine learning to some of the artist’s favorit...