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The artworks of the prolific Cuban-born painter, sculptor, photographer, poet, and writer Enrique Martínez Celaya mine the transient world of time and memory, identity and displacement. His images range from a body emerging from a murky tar-painted landscape to lightening paintings created of ash, blood and mirror.
Martínez Celaya moves comfortably between intense emotional explorations and highly-intellectual examinations. Through art, he addresses the search for purpose and truth which forms a basis and map to ethical and responsible choices in work and life. Martínez Celaya states, “Art that is a signpost for the future, clarifying of the past, and insistent that the beautiful is resonant with life and revealing of its order.”
Since his first solo exhibition, Black Paintings, at the UC Santa Barbara Art Museum, in 1994, Martínez Celaya has exhibited in Europe, Latin America, and throughout the U.S. His work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Miami Art Museum. Martínez Celaya has taught at universities and has published and edited several books of fiction, poetry, science, and philosophy.