Enrique Martinez Celaya "Sea Sky Land: Towards a Map of Everything" at USC Fisher Museum

The Returning Tale

The Name

The Generations' Keeper

The Storm

The Call (or the Sea)

The Quarrel with Time

 The Faithful

The Planter's Seed and The Children's Rhyme

The Acknowledgment

The Kiss of Air

Primavera (Spring)

The Prodigal Son

The Path

El Caminante (The Walker)

The Sword of Heaven

Enrique Martinez Celaya in conversation with Alexander Nemerov

USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles

The Well at USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles

All artwork by Enrique Martinez Celaya

 

Some things are made to stay with you.

I haven't stopped thinking about Enrique Martinez Celaya's The Faithful since I saw it recently at USC's Fisher Museum in Los Angeles. I remember thinking about it as I closed my eyes to go to sleep late that night and waking up to the image of it burned into my head the next morning. This towering painting of the moon glowing full and bright staring down at you over a field of flowers that is somehow more than a painting, perhaps, even more beautiful than the moon itself. 

 

There is much to ponder about this body of work and to pour over in the accompanying catalogue. I know that whatever I have to say won't do it the justice that it deserves. 

 

I wanted to share the information about Enrique Martinez Celaya's work so that those of you living in Southern California can hopefully get to experience it in person.

 

EMC's Instagram as well as his website.

 

Martínez Celaya's SEA SKY LAND:
towards a map of everything at USC Fisher Museum through April 9, 2022 (make your reservations in advance)

 

Recent LA Times article, With four L.A. shows, Enrique Martínez Celaya displays the breadth of his artistic range by Leah Ollman

 

Recent article for the Art Newspaper by Jonathan Griffin  

 

Exhibit Catalog for Sea Sky Land: Towards a Map of Everything 

 

Enrique Martinez Celaya's The Rose Garden at UTA Artist's Space Beverly Hills (A film by Eric Minh Swenson/EMS Legacy Films)

 

"There-Bound"as part of the Borderlands Exhibit at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA

 

The Fire of Heaven: Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers at the USC Doheny Memorial Library. February 22-April 9, 2022, Los Angeles. An expanded version of this exhibition will travel to the Monterey Museum of Art in May 2022.