FOCUS: Martine Gutierrez

November 8, 2019 - January 12, 2020
Martine Gutierrez  Queer Rage, Imagine Life-Size, and I'm Tyra, p66-67 from Indigenous Woman, 2018  C-print mounted on Sintra, Edition of 8, plus 2 AP  42 × 56 inches  Courtesy of the Artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, NY

Martine Gutierrez
Queer Rage, Imagine Life-Size, and I'm Tyra, p66-67 from Indigenous Woman, 2018
C-print mounted on Sintra
42 × 56 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, NY

November 8, 2019 - January 12, 2020

Martine Gutierrez’s photographs and videos explore gender, race, class, and sexuality, as well as conventional ideals of beauty and identity as a social construct. Her most ambitious project to date, Indigenous Woman, 2018, is a glossy, 146-page publication that closely mirrors Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in form and production. Here, Gutierrez assumes the role of editor, writer, model, designer, ad executive, and photographer, with fictional advertising and high-fashion spreads where the artist continually reinvents herself throughout its pages. As the artist states, “Indigenous Woman marries the traditional to the contemporary, the native to the post-colonial, and the marginalized to the mainstream in the pursuit of genuine selfhood, revealing cultural inequities along the way. This is a quest for identity. Of my own specifically, yes, but by digging my pretty, painted nails deeply into the dirt of my own image I am also probing the depths for some understanding of identity as a social construction.” For her FOCUS exhibition, the artist will present photographs from the Indigenous Woman series.

Martine Gutierrez was born in 1989 in Berkeley, California, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Her work has been the focus of solo exhibitions at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts; Ryan Lee, New York; Boston University Art Galleries; Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh; and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, among others. She has also been included in many group exhibitions across the globe, including the 58th Venice Biennale, and at institutions such as the Hayward Gallery, London; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; Kunstmuseum Bonn; and the New Museum, New York. Gutierrez’s work is in public collections such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Martine Gutierrez  Body En Thrall, p113 from Indigenous Woman, 2018   C-print mounted on Sintra  90 × 60 inches   Courtesy of the Artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, NY

Martine Gutierrez
Body En Thrall, p113 from Indigenous Woman, 2018 
C-print mounted on Sintra
90 × 60 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, NY
 

Martine Gutierrez
Queer Rage, Imagine Life-Size, and I'm Tyra, p66-67 from Indigenous Woman, 2018
C-print mounted on Sintra
42 × 56 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, NY