Speculation #1 | Isabel M. Martinez
2020
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 15, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Isabel M. Martínez’s work deals with the aspects of experience where the real, the known and the imagined blend. Perception is a recurring theme within her practice. This is paired with an ongoing interest in ideas concerning notions of time, space, simultaneity, and duration. Her visual interpretations are informed in part by science, philosophy, and fiction. Process and experimentation with the qualities of analogue photography are at the forefront of much of Martínez’s work. This leads to hybrid exercises and abstractions, and to the making of images rather than the taking of photographs. Through these channels, her work engages with the uncertain amid the assumed and probes the boundary between abstraction and representation.
In Speculation #1, light and the film negative are featured as substance and malleable materials. A glowing semicircle emerges from a brushed space of textured colours reminiscent of wind blowing through a field of blues, ochres, and cool greys. The semicircle acts as both an object and a passageway.
ABOUT ISABEL M. MARTINEZ
Isabel M. Martínez is a Toronto-based artist who spent her formative years in Santiago de Chile. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, artist-run centres, and biennials. Notable exhibitions include the Museo Nacional de la Fotografia (Bogotá), Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Tenerife), Gallery 44 (Toronto), Theoretische Kunstprojecte (The Hague), Proyectos Solís Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid), and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Upcoming shows will take place at Angell Gallery as part of the CONTACT Photography Festival 2021.
Her work has been featured and reviewed in print and online, and placed on the cover of books, journals, and magazines. Recent publications include FOAMMagazine, The Creators Project, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Prefix Photo Magazine, and a collaboration with the Center for Quantum Nanoscience at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul. This fall, her work will grace the cover of the Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht’s issue on the subject of ‘Multinarratives’.
Martínez holds a BFA from Universidad Católica de Chile and an MFA from the University of Guelph, Canada.
Selected solo exhibitions: The Distance of an Echo, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2021); Todas Las Cosas Comienzan en La Oscuridad, Proyectos Solís Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, ES (2020); From Walking so Much in Circles, I will End up Making a Sphere, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2020); All Things Begin in the Dark, Empty Gallery, Victoria, BC (2020); These Things Take Time, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2019).
Selected group exhibitions: How dark does it get when the lights go out, curated by Noah Gano, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2020); A.P.P, Nuit Blanche 2019, curated by Kelly McCray and Ian McLeod, Samara Contemporary Gallery and The Gladstone, Toronto, ON (2019); Weight of Light, curated by Darryn Doull, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (2018); Let There Be Light, curated by Bill Clarke, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2018); Built to Play, curated by Kelly McCray, FCP Gallery, Toronto, ON (2018); Projection Project, curated by Kelly McCray and Ian MacLeod, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON (2018); Urban Green: Artscarp, Public Art Project celebrating Canada 150, curated by Sally Frater, Sam Lawrence Park, Hamilton, ON (2017).
2020
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 15, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Isabel M. Martínez’s work deals with the aspects of experience where the real, the known and the imagined blend. Perception is a recurring theme within her practice. This is paired with an ongoing interest in ideas concerning notions of time, space, simultaneity, and duration. Her visual interpretations are informed in part by science, philosophy, and fiction. Process and experimentation with the qualities of analogue photography are at the forefront of much of Martínez’s work. This leads to hybrid exercises and abstractions, and to the making of images rather than the taking of photographs. Through these channels, her work engages with the uncertain amid the assumed and probes the boundary between abstraction and representation.
In Speculation #1, light and the film negative are featured as substance and malleable materials. A glowing semicircle emerges from a brushed space of textured colours reminiscent of wind blowing through a field of blues, ochres, and cool greys. The semicircle acts as both an object and a passageway.
ABOUT ISABEL M. MARTINEZ
Isabel M. Martínez is a Toronto-based artist who spent her formative years in Santiago de Chile. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, artist-run centres, and biennials. Notable exhibitions include the Museo Nacional de la Fotografia (Bogotá), Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Tenerife), Gallery 44 (Toronto), Theoretische Kunstprojecte (The Hague), Proyectos Solís Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid), and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Upcoming shows will take place at Angell Gallery as part of the CONTACT Photography Festival 2021.
Her work has been featured and reviewed in print and online, and placed on the cover of books, journals, and magazines. Recent publications include FOAMMagazine, The Creators Project, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Prefix Photo Magazine, and a collaboration with the Center for Quantum Nanoscience at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul. This fall, her work will grace the cover of the Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht’s issue on the subject of ‘Multinarratives’.
Martínez holds a BFA from Universidad Católica de Chile and an MFA from the University of Guelph, Canada.
Selected solo exhibitions: The Distance of an Echo, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2021); Todas Las Cosas Comienzan en La Oscuridad, Proyectos Solís Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, ES (2020); From Walking so Much in Circles, I will End up Making a Sphere, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2020); All Things Begin in the Dark, Empty Gallery, Victoria, BC (2020); These Things Take Time, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2019).
Selected group exhibitions: How dark does it get when the lights go out, curated by Noah Gano, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2020); A.P.P, Nuit Blanche 2019, curated by Kelly McCray and Ian McLeod, Samara Contemporary Gallery and The Gladstone, Toronto, ON (2019); Weight of Light, curated by Darryn Doull, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (2018); Let There Be Light, curated by Bill Clarke, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2018); Built to Play, curated by Kelly McCray, FCP Gallery, Toronto, ON (2018); Projection Project, curated by Kelly McCray and Ian MacLeod, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON (2018); Urban Green: Artscarp, Public Art Project celebrating Canada 150, curated by Sally Frater, Sam Lawrence Park, Hamilton, ON (2017).
2020
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 15, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Isabel M. Martínez’s work deals with the aspects of experience where the real, the known and the imagined blend. Perception is a recurring theme within her practice. This is paired with an ongoing interest in ideas concerning notions of time, space, simultaneity, and duration. Her visual interpretations are informed in part by science, philosophy, and fiction. Process and experimentation with the qualities of analogue photography are at the forefront of much of Martínez’s work. This leads to hybrid exercises and abstractions, and to the making of images rather than the taking of photographs. Through these channels, her work engages with the uncertain amid the assumed and probes the boundary between abstraction and representation.
In Speculation #1, light and the film negative are featured as substance and malleable materials. A glowing semicircle emerges from a brushed space of textured colours reminiscent of wind blowing through a field of blues, ochres, and cool greys. The semicircle acts as both an object and a passageway.
ABOUT ISABEL M. MARTINEZ
Isabel M. Martínez is a Toronto-based artist who spent her formative years in Santiago de Chile. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, artist-run centres, and biennials. Notable exhibitions include the Museo Nacional de la Fotografia (Bogotá), Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Tenerife), Gallery 44 (Toronto), Theoretische Kunstprojecte (The Hague), Proyectos Solís Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid), and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Upcoming shows will take place at Angell Gallery as part of the CONTACT Photography Festival 2021.
Her work has been featured and reviewed in print and online, and placed on the cover of books, journals, and magazines. Recent publications include FOAMMagazine, The Creators Project, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Prefix Photo Magazine, and a collaboration with the Center for Quantum Nanoscience at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul. This fall, her work will grace the cover of the Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht’s issue on the subject of ‘Multinarratives’.
Martínez holds a BFA from Universidad Católica de Chile and an MFA from the University of Guelph, Canada.
Selected solo exhibitions: The Distance of an Echo, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2021); Todas Las Cosas Comienzan en La Oscuridad, Proyectos Solís Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, ES (2020); From Walking so Much in Circles, I will End up Making a Sphere, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2020); All Things Begin in the Dark, Empty Gallery, Victoria, BC (2020); These Things Take Time, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2019).
Selected group exhibitions: How dark does it get when the lights go out, curated by Noah Gano, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2020); A.P.P, Nuit Blanche 2019, curated by Kelly McCray and Ian McLeod, Samara Contemporary Gallery and The Gladstone, Toronto, ON (2019); Weight of Light, curated by Darryn Doull, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (2018); Let There Be Light, curated by Bill Clarke, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (2018); Built to Play, curated by Kelly McCray, FCP Gallery, Toronto, ON (2018); Projection Project, curated by Kelly McCray and Ian MacLeod, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON (2018); Urban Green: Artscarp, Public Art Project celebrating Canada 150, curated by Sally Frater, Sam Lawrence Park, Hamilton, ON (2017).