Martine Gutierrez is Brooklyn based artist, performer, and musician who graduated from RISD in 2012. Gutierrez is known for creating elaborate bodies of work that employ themes of pop culture to explore the complexity and fluidity of identity, both personal and collective. A unique quality of Gutierrez’ art is that she is not only the artist and muse, but is typically also the subject of her own art, posing herself within her images.
In 2018, Gutierrez produced Indigenous Woman, a 124-page magazine endowed with fashion spreads, product advertisements, and motifs of pop culture. Gutierrez simultaneously celebrates Mayan heritage and indigeneity within the the magazine while also challenging conventional ideals of beauty to expose how deeply racism, transphobia, and other inherent biases are so deeply rooted within American culture.
Through Her Gaze features two of Gutierrez’ works:
Demons, Tlazoteotl ‘Eater of Filth’
p.93 from Indigenous Woman
2018
½ x 28 ½ x 1 ½ in.
C-print mounted on Sintra, hand painted artist frame
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Museum Purchase, Greenacres Acquisition Fund 2019.43
Body En Thrall, p120 from Indigenous Woman,
2018
C-print mounted on Sintra,
48 x 32 in
Learn more about the artist:
https://ryanleegallery.com/artists/martine-gutierrez/
http://www.martinegutierrez.com/