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About Marina Martinez

Every work in Marina Martinez’s Exploration series is a journey into a new world, steeped in vintage magazine imagery. Her collage artworks are endlessly fascinating - the diversity and juxtapositions of contrasting elements reveal new surprises and stories with each viewing. The artist constructs her collages using traditional methods. Coined by the poet and writer André Breton, the term “Collage” stems from the French, “coller”, meaning to glue – and this is exactly what Martinez does. She creates cohesive scenes from countless disparate scraps of material, each one painstakingly cut and glued into place. Breton and others in the nascent surrealism movement embraced the… Read more