Patrick Martinez works acquired by the California African American Museum (CAAM)
Charlie James Gallery is delighted to announce that the California African American Museum (CAAM) has acquired works by Patrick Martinez. The gallery wishes to thank Mar Hollingsworth and the entire team at CAAM for their enthusiastic support of Patrick and his work!
Gone Too Soon Pee Chee memorializes three victims of police brutality. Andres Guardado (top center) was 18 years old when he was shot 5 times in the back by LA Sheriff deputy Miguel Vega. A witness stated that Guardado “got down on his knees and surrendered with his hands behind his head but was still shot in the back.” Elijah Jovan McClain (lower left) was 23 years old when he was killed after an encounter with Aurora Police officers Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt and Randy Roedema while walking home. McClain was forcibly held to the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back, after which an officer applied a chokehold and paramedics administered ketamine to McClain to sedate him. While being transported to the hospital McClain went into cardiac arrest, and died seven days later. Sean Monterrosa (lower right) was 22 years old when he was fatally shot by Vallejo police officer Jarrett Tonn. Monterrosa was on his knees and had his hands above his waist when Tonn shot him through the windshield of his unmarked police pickup truck.
CAAM has also acquired the Racism Doesn't Rest During a Pandemic Pee Chee print, which was created by Patrick Martinez in the summer of 2020 as a fundraising effort for various charities and GoFundMes related to victims of police brutality and the BLM Movement.
Patrick Martinez (b. 1980 Pasadena, CA) earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Seoul, and the Netherlands, at venues including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art, LA Louver, Galerie Lelong & Co., MACLA, the Chinese American Museum and the Euphrat Museum of Art, among others. Patrick’s work resides in the permanent collections of LACMA, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the Cornell Fine Art Museum, the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Museum of Latin American Art, among others. Patrick was awarded a Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, FL, to be completed in 2021. Also in the fall of 2021 Patrick will be the subject of a solo museum exhibition, Look What You Created at the Tucson Museum of Art. Patrick lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.
