Eddie Martinez: You think that you know but you know that you don’t

Eddie Martinez’s (b. 1977) work joins together painting and drawing, abstraction and representation in non-traditional ways. Imbued with a sense of personal iconography, his practice often combines signature elements, such as bug-eyed humans wearing eclectic headgear, blockheads and Buflies. Energetic and raw, his artworks employ an aggressive use of colour and texture through various combinations of oil, enamel, spray paint, collage and detritus picked up from the studio floor. Martinez’s unconventional practice has received growing institutional support, with five museum solo shows in the last four years, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit and the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, both 2019, and at the Bronx Museum in 2018.