Romulo Martinez
Emotional Quarantine
Screen printing, drawing with colored pencil, acrylic and enamel paint on acid-free 300g paper
18 x 12 inches
2020

Romulo Martinez
My Ally (In Madness)
Screen printing, drawing with colored pencil, acrylic and enamel paint on acid-free 300g paper
24 x 18 inches
2020

Romulo Martinez
Heart of an Immigrant (Greeting from a distance)
Polyethylene colored by the artist, collage, acrylic and enamel paint on acid-free 300g paper
15 x 11 inches
2020

Romulo Martinez
Contained Introspection (When looking for love)
Screen printing, drawing with colored pencil, acrylic and enamel paint on acid-free 300g paper
18 x 12 inches
2020

Romulo Martinez
The Spiritual Self (Dissociative identities)
Colored polyethylene by the artist and collage on acid-free 300g paper
15 x 11 inches
2020

Romulo Martinez
Brotherhood (Detail)
Polyethylene colored by the artist and collage on canvas
20 x 56 inches
2020

The artist's mind is organic, reacts and works based on the constant experiences that build his being. The moments lived with their respective spaces and elements, generate feelings and moods that lead him to look for concepts, sparks that give rise to the momentum of creation with the desire to tell stories that sensitize those who hear and observe. My work and person, at this moment, are located in an instant of that tireless search of wanting to do something different and distinctive in terms of color representation to not repeat a story already told, instead, tell and exhibit a new story based on unconventional and unpublished techniques.

In my artistic journey, I have been a faithful follower of color, which, with the impulse to deepen the potential of it, has led me in a fascinating way to study the iridescent effects that show and reflect the colors of the rainbow in natural and industrial elements present in our environment and societies, to represent them with the challenge and ingenuity that the proposals merit.

With a personal photographic experiment in my workshop, this aesthetic investigation began, which, when witnessing through the contemplative observation of color radiation inside an aqueous body after the decomposition of light, germinated in me the interest in investigate the color through light and the materialization of the intangible phenomenon, leading me to communicate what has been observed through various techniques, tools and materials that evoke and reproduce those variables, such as colors with their shades and approximations from one color to another, the wateriness with the organicity, brightness and the volume in expansion, and the light with transparency in colorless spaces to potentiate its chromatic values, all expressed in abstract and figurative contexts, nourished by the different elements that make up the worldview of the physical, geographical and cultural spaces that I inhabit, in order to provide viewers with a sensory visual experience, an experience that awakens an aesthetic delight reflected individually and collectively through the contemplation of colors and volumes.

Romulo Martinez Venezuelan artist residing in Frisco Texas, Bachelor of Arts of the University of Zulia, Master in Artistic Production of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, has several academic awards and artistic rewards. In his experience as an artist, he has 10 solo exhibitions held in outstanding museums and cultural institutions, among them his most recent one IN BETWEEN was held at The Gallery 8680 Frisco, Texas in July 2020. He has participated in more than 60 collective exhibitions and art salons. His work has been exhibited in different Venezuelan cities, Caracas, Maracaibo, Valencia, Maracay, Barcelona and Trujillo, and internationally in Bogotá-Colombia, Valencia-Spain, Miami-USA, Aruba, Singapore-Singapore City, Lima-Peru, Dallas-USA, Denton-USA, Fort Woth-USA and Frisco-USA. He worked as a Plastic Arts Teacher at the Culture Department of the University of Zulia (2012-2015) and since 2018 resides in Frisco, Texas developing new artworks and projects.