Amon Carter Museum
Martinez heroicizes farmworkers while highlighting the injustices that they face, an approach informed by his own experiences working on factory farms in Washington state. He draws and paints directly onto cardboard boxes used to ship fruits and vegetables, explaining that the advertising images on these boxes “hide the realities farm workers endure [on] the front lines.”
Royal-ty is based on an early 20th-century advertisement for the Corona Citrus Association showing a queen displaying an orange. Martinez replaces the orange with a broken scale, symbolizing injustice, and he paints over part of the word “PRODUCE” on one of the boxes so that “ICE” is emblazoned across her chest, an allusion to the ever-present threat of deportation and the industry’s reliance on undocumented labor.
The queen appears alongside a scene of workers at lunchtime: Martinez appears in a self-portrait to the right of center, holding a taco plate like a painter’s palette. Facing the viewer, he appears as a firsthand witness to the disconnect between advertising and labor.
(This work is made of ink, gouache, charcoal, and gold leaf on eight flattened cardboard produce boxes. When the cardboard panels are assembled, the artwork measures 77-by-108 inches. The artist does not want the work to be framed but rather hung directly on the wall. Because the panels are made from produce boxes, each one has holes and slots that show through to whatever surface the work is hung on.
(This work is made of ink, gouache, charcoal, and gold leaf on eight flattened cardboard produce boxes. When the cardboard panels are assembled, the artwork measures 77-by-108 inches. The artist does not want the work to be framed but rather hung directly on the wall. Because the panels are made from produce boxes, each one has holes and slots that show through to whatever surface the work is hung on.
When considering the future of this artwork, we decided that a unifying supportive backing panel would allow us to handle it as one object, and the cardboard panels would not have to be handled individually whenever the art is moved, displayed, or stored.)
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I've never seen gringos washing cars, gotta go there and take pictures and post them!!!
March 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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where's the hoe? Only experience people that go up north to work the fields are experts in the use of the most important equipment "EL ASADON", and its not on the drawing. howsad must not be or has never been a field hand...
show me a hoe and I will show you a meskin!!!
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