Left in Ruins

Charlie James Gallery is proud to present Patrick Martinez: Left in Ruins , an exhibition of new paintings, drawings, sculptures, and neons by the Los Angeles artist, his fourth with the gallery. The works in this exhibition were created over the last two years and represent the culmination of the artist's formal experimentation and thematic distillation reaching back nearly a decade. Martinez works at the scale of the city, using the Los Angeles landscape as material and medium. His interest falls equally on the city's edenic flora and its ubiquitous signage; its promise of paradise and its oft-crumbling reality. This layered consideration of Los Angeles as subject manifests in works that encompass histories of migration and mark-making, architecture and activism, that are immediately familiar yet exhilaratingly original.