Patrick Martinez-Mees (b 1969) is a French-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. For about 30 years, he has been exploring different forms of expression, such as drawing, sculpture, installation, video,...
Patrick Martinez-Mees (b 1969) is a French-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. For about 30 years, he has been exploring different forms of expression, such as drawing, sculpture, installation, video, sound art, and product design. His work examines ideas about process, displacement, shifts or perspective, and often investigates the relationship between the artwork and its context of presentation in order to challenge perception.
In recent years, the artist has been focusing mostly on his drawing practice. He is currently developing several series of works on paper, such as rule-based drawings around the notions of repetition and difference, text oriented drawings in relation to music, works playing with accumulation and negative space, others emphasizing unconventional encounters, light phenomena, matter transformation and transitory states. Whether abstract of figurative, these drawings demonstrate a recurring interest for time and space exploration, and his attachment to the notion of in-betweenness.
Patrick Martinez-Mees has exhibited in France, where he was represented by George-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois Gallery until 2003; in Germany, Spain, England, Brazil, Japan and the US, where his work was represented in New York by Parker’s Box Gallery, until its closure in 2013. He is also the founder of the product design studio Blank Bubble, with which he created the award wining construction system JIX (www.jix.us.com) and also the Maison Inondée bowl, produced and distributed by the MoMA design store.